Ok, I set my machine to CET and I get the problem. It is indeed a
Microsoft bug: it seems its mktime can only regards as valid times after
1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT (and not after that time in the current timezone). Hence R's strptime has trouble in the period of 1970 when CMT was in 1969. That's pretty esoteric!
Really!
Fixed now in R-devel.
Thank you very much. It was my intention to point out that there was really a problem with some platforms, not that I have this problem. As we know and as was discussed earlier there are also several workarounds.
Thomas P.
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