Re: [R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Rhiannon Marchant wrote: Hello, Thanks the Prof. Brian Ripley for his earlier response, however I still have a few issues with the times in R. I'd like to somehow set up R so it automatically has the timezone set to Western Australian standard time when I open up

[R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-03-10 Thread Rhiannon Marchant
To Rhiannon Marchant cc r-help@r-project.org Subject Re: [R] removing daylight savings in R What do you mean by &

Re: [R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-02-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What do you mean by 'standard time'? If you mean UTC, set TZ=UTC. For anything else, see ?Sys.timezone (which explains the use of TZ). I am guessing that you are storing times in "POSIXct" objects (you do not say): they are in UTC. Have you any evidence that 'datetimes are getting converted t

[R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-02-26 Thread Rhiannon Marchant
Hi all, I've been having some trouble with times in regards to daylight savings in R version 2.8.1. I have an ORACLE database that R is importing data in from, for the 2am and 2:30am time intervals for the dates that daylight savings starts the times are getting read as NA values i