Re: [R] Unexpected behavior of clocktime related to daylight savings time

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

Re: [R] Unexpected behavior of clocktime related to daylight savings time

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

Re: [R] Unexpected behavior of clocktime related to daylight savings time

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