Re: [Rd] daylight saving / time zone issues with as.POSIXlt/as.POSIXct (PR#10392)

2007-11-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem >> to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight >> savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch >> is actually on Su

Re: [Rd] RPM Key in Readme file

2007-11-01 Thread Joe W. Byers
Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:35 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote: > >> Marc Schwartz wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:04 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote: >>> >>> The readme file on the cran website for linux EL5 contains the following RPMS for Red Hat Enter

[Rd] Curry: proposed new functional programming, er, function.

2007-11-01 Thread Byron Ellis
Hi all (especially R-core) I suppose, With the introduction of the new functional programming functions into base I thought I'd ask for a Curry() function. I use a simple one that looks this: Curry = function(FUN,...) { .orig = list(...);function(...) do.call(FUN,c(.orig,list(...))) } This comes

Re: [Rd] daylight saving / time zone issues with as.POSIXlt/as.POSIXct (PR#10393)

2007-11-01 Thread p . dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem > to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight > savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch > is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. > > =20 Not Our Problem. (This s

Re: [Rd] daylight saving / time zone issues with as.POSIXlt/as.POSIXct (PR#10392)

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem > to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight > savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch > is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. > > Not Our Problem. (This sor

[Rd] daylight saving / time zone issues with as.POSIXlt/as.POSIXct (PR#10392)

2007-11-01 Thread tplate
Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. Examples: > Sys.timezone() [1] "Mountain Daylight Time" > as.P