Full_Name: Allen McIntosh
Version: 2.0.0
OS: RedHat 9.0
Submission from: (NULL) (67.80.175.118)
The POSIX time printing routine gives strange results when asked to print a time
that is exactly midnight:
TZ=CST6CDT R -q --no-save
> strptime("10/5/2004 00:00:01 CDT", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
[1] "2004-10-05 00:00:01"
> strptime("10/5/2004 00:00:00 CDT", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
[1] "2004-10-05"
> strptime("10/4/2004 24:00:00 CDT", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
[1] NA
The first time is OK. The second is missing the HH:MM:SS.
I'm OK with the last one being NA, just did it to see if that was the way that
the code wanted midnight.
Get the underlying # seconds:
> zz <- as.POSIXct(strptime("10/5/2004 00:00:00 CDT", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z"))
> attr(zz,"class") <- NULL
> zz
[1] 1096952400
attr(,"tzone")
[1] ""
>
and (just to see if the problem is glibc or something):
$ cat ct.c
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main() {
time_t z = 1096952400;
printf("%s\n", ctime(&z));
return 0;
}
$ gcc -o ct ct.c
$ TZ=CST6CDT ./ct
Tue Oct 5 00:00:00 2004
This problem also observed with R 1.6.0 and R 1.8.1 (RedHat 7.3)
The timezone doesn't seem to matter - this is just the first date that tripped
over this problem.
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