On 18/04/2014 19:46, Rui Barradas wrote:
Hello,

The reason why is that you've misspelled CET (not CEST)

Neither CET nor CEST are portable time-zone names. We have not been given the 'at a minimum' information required by the posting guide, so please read ?Sys.timezone on your system.



 > dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz =
"CEST")
Warning messages:
1: In strptime(x, format, tz = tz) : unknown timezone 'CEST'
2: In as.POSIXct.POSIXlt(as.POSIXlt(x, tz, ...), tz, ...) :
   unknown timezone 'CEST'
 > dt2 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz =
"GMT")
 > dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz =
"CET")
 > dt1-dt2
Time difference of -2 hours


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 18-04-2014 17:13, Nicola Sturaro Sommacal escreveu:
Hi.

I am new to POSIX and I'd like to understand the reason of this
difference.

dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-03-29 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M")
dt2 = as.POSIXct("2014-03-30 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M")
dt2-dt1

dt1[1] "2014-03-29 09:00:00 CET"> dt2[1] "2014-03-30 09:00:00 CEST">
dt2-dt1

Time difference of 23 hours

This is right, because on Mar 31 at 2 PM we jump directly to 3PM, DST.

On the contrary, I don't understand the following:

dt1 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz =
"CEST")
dt2 = as.POSIXct("2014-04-18 09.00", format="%Y-%m-%d %H.%M", tz = "GMT")

dt1[1] "2014-04-18 09:00:00 CEST"> dt2[1] "2014-04-18 09:00:00 GMT">
dt1-dt2Time difference of 0 secs


I should expected a time difference of 2 hours, as CEST is GMT+2.

Anyone can help me?

Thank you,
Nicola

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