Look at documentation ?as.Date
as.Date first represents time in UTC, what gives: as.POSIXlt(zzz1, tz="UTC") HTH 2009/12/20 MAL <diver...@univecom.ch>: > All! > > This piece of code: > > zzz1 <- as.POSIXct("1999-03-18", tz="CET") > zzz2 <- as.POSIXlt("1999-03-18", tz="CET") > zzz1 == zzz2 > as.Date(zzz1) > as.Date(zzz2) > > yields TRUE for "zzz1==zzz2", but the two dates returned by as.Date are > different: > >> as.Date(zzz1) > > [1] "1999-03-17" >> >> as.Date(zzz2) > > [1] "1999-03-18" > > I'm using R 2.10.0. > > Would be glad for any clarifications. Thanks! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Marek ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.