On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Rhiannon Marchant wrote:
Hello, Thanks the Prof. Brian Ripley for his earlier response, however I still have a few issues with the times in R. I'd like to somehow set up R so it automatically has the timezone set to Western Australian standard time when I open up a workspace instead of Western Australian daylight savings time. Is this possible? I haven't had much luck in trying to find this.
Yes, see ?Sys.timezone (as described in my earlier reply). According to Wikipedia that is not an actual timezone, but it seems you want TZ='GMT-8'. As that is not a known timezone, you will get some messages when trying to print the time and (spuriously) GMT as the timezone names, but input conversion did work.
The best thing to do would be to create a timezone with the names you want and recreate the zoneinfo database: there are instructions on how to do so in the R sources.
Life would be a lot easier if you keep times in an official timezone or UTC. I would suggest reading them as if in UTC (again, I explained that in my first reply) and shifting by 8 hours (subtract 8*3600): you can then print them in UTC or a real-world time.
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