On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:24:02 +0000 (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > No, it should be a timezone, and the timezone specification includes > when DST is in effect. See ?as.POSIXct for details and references of > timezones. For example, EST is a timezone without DST and EST5EDT is a > timezone with DST (and they agree in winter). It looks like Linux is > interpreting EEST as UTC+3 throughout the year (which appears not to be > used anywhere as an actual timezone). So the behaviour is clear: EEST > does not have DST, and $isdst == 0 in that 'timezone', whereas EET does > have DST. Thanks for this explanation. Very important to check whether the supplied 'tz' is really interpreted as a valid time zone by the OS! Cheers, -- Seb ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
