I'm not surprised that strange things happen if you try to handle times in
the duplicated hour without specifying which time you mean. If your
current time zone setting is something like EST5EDT that includes both
daylight-saving and standard times then 2008-11-02 01:16:00 occured
twice, so
Professor Ripley,
My apologies for not clarifying the timezone - I am in California (PDT
-> PST). I did review various help pages and I am still unclear on
the explanation.
I replicated your code:
> as.POSIXct("2008-11-02 01:17:00")
[1] "2008-11-02 01:17:00 PST"
> as.POSIXct("2008-11-02
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Dennis Fisher wrote:
Colleagues,
I submitted this several days ago and no one responded, so I am trying
again, trying a different subject line:
Well, you posted something that indicated you had not studied the relevant
help pages, without the information requested in the
Colleagues,
I submitted this several days ago and no one responded, so I am trying
again, trying a different subject line:
I just encountered some unexpected behavior of difftime in
relationship to the change from daylight savings to standard time.
My understanding is that DST and ST take ef
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