Full_Name: Xiao Gang FAN
Version: 2.4.0
OS: Windows
Submission from: (NULL) (159.50.101.9)
library(chron)
as.Date(as.POSIXct(strptime(1994-01-24,%Y-%m-%d)))
[1] 1994-01-23
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as.Date is converting your object with respect to GMT time zone and in
that time zone your POSIXct date is the day before. See ?as.Date and also
suggest you read R News 4/1 help desk article.
On 11/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Full_Name: Xiao Gang FAN
Version: 2.4.0
OS:
You have not told us your timezone, but this seems to be as documented if
you are in CET. The help page says
The 'as.Date' methods accept character strings, factors, logical
'NA' and objects of classes 'POSIXlt' and 'POSIXct'. (The
last are converted to days by ignoring the
