Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 07/11/2014 10:21, Vasantha Kumar Kesavan wrote: I am Sorry for not explained my requirement to you properly. As you told in Windows I need to update the $R_HOME/share/zoneinfo with the latest time zone information, since R is not using the operating system time zone files. Then I have updated

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-07 Thread Vasantha Kumar Kesavan
I am Sorry for not explained my requirement to you properly. As you told in Windows I need to update the $R_HOME/share/zoneinfo with the latest time zone information, since R is not using the operating system time zone files. Then I have updated the zoneinfo directory, after that it is working fin

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
?timezones You probably need to recompile R. --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live... DCN:Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#..

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Vasantha Kumar Kesavan
In LINUX, I don't want R to use the operating system zoneinfo(Olsen database) instead of that I like to point different path which has the latest zoneinfo(latest Olsen database). On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Working now... after what action? > > AFAIK on *NIX systems R

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Working now... after what action? AFAIK on *NIX systems R uses the OS installation of the Olsen database, so on a fresh login R should pick up any OS update you have installed. --- Jeff NewmillerThe

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Vasantha Kumar Kesavan
Thanks Jeff Newmiller, it is working now. I would like to know, the same kind of configuration can be done in Linux and Solaris platform. Instead of R is mapping to operating system(/usr/share/. /usr/share/lib/) zoneinfo directory. Thanks Vasanth On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Jeff Newmiller

Re: [R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
R on Windows uses the Olsen timezone database, a copy of which is stored with R in the Program Files directory (e.g. R/R-3.1.1/share/zoneinfo). You could update the file yourself if you can find a corrected version, or download an updated version of R. ---

[R] Daylight Saving Time

2014-11-06 Thread Vasantha Kumar Kesavan
Hi, I am working R on windows 2012 R2 platform, I have updated the latest hotfixes for time zone information(Microsoft KB 2981580. ). But still R is not populating correct date time values(Standard and Daylight saving). Could you please advise me, how to