[R] How long is a day?

2003-07-01 Thread Laimonis Kavalieris
Why is 19 March, 1947 a little longer than one day?

x -  as.POSIXct(1947-04-16)

julian(x, origin = as.POSIXct(1947-03-20))
Time difference of 27 days
julian(x, origin = as.POSIXct(1947-03-19))
Time difference of 28.04167 days
 julian(x, origin = as.POSIXct(1947-03-18))
Time difference of 29.04167 days
I am running R-1.7.1 compiled on RedHat 9.0

Laimonis

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[R] How long is a day?

2003-07-01 Thread Laimonis Kavalieris
Sorry about wasing time -

Apparently NZ daylisght saving time finished on March 20, 1947 , and on 
March 3, 1980, and March 20, 2000 .  I'm impressed that R knows all of this

Laimonis

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