On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:01:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Christoph Schmutz, MeteoSchweiz, Switzerland > Version: R1.7.1, R1.8.1 > OS: windows2000, solaris sunOS 5.8 > Submission from: (NULL) (141.249.133.6) > > > > I'm not sure if I don't get the clue, but please consider this: > > strptime("19930870150","%Y%j%H%M") > [1] "1993-03-28 01:50:00" > > strptime("19930870250","%Y%j%H%M") > [1] "1993-03-28 01:50:00" > > strptime("19930870350","%Y%j%H%M") > [1] "1993-03-28 03:50:00"
You are presumably hitting the switch from dayligh-saving to regular time in that year. I was just mucking about with that, but R (1.9.0 as of Jan 8, 2004, on Debian unstable) still crashes reliably even when I explicitly set the TZ variable (and it also crashed for TZ=GMT): > Sys.getenv("TZ") TZ "" > Sys.putenv("TZ"="CDT6CST") > Sys.getenv("TZ") TZ "CDT6CST" > format(strptime("199308070150","%Y%m%d%H%M"), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", tz="GMT", usetz=TRUE) [1] "1993-08-07 01:50:00" > format(strptime("199308070150","%Y%m%d%H%M"), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", tz="GMT", usetz=TRUE) Segmentation fault Not nice. I wrote some code to transfer time stamps from one time zone to another, but that sits at work right now and I can't get to it... Dirk > > The behaviour is the same with R1.7.1 on Window2000 as on a R1.8.1 on sunOS > 5.8. > > Thanks for the reply, Christoph > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Bush behaved in Cabinet meetings "like a blind man in roomful of deaf people". -- former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, quoted by Bloomberg on 9 Jan 2004 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel