Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> writes: : : Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: :
: : If you set it to GMT for the duration of the sqlFetch call, it should do : : as you intended (but had not told R, which is not clairvoyant). : : : : On Windows you have to set the whole computer to GMT which has Paul Roebuck pointed out to me offlist that this can be done per process in Windows too so I was wrong on this point. ... start up Windows console ... cd \Program Files\rw2001beta set TZ=GMT bin\Rgui In R, Sys.time() # displays date and time in GMT time zone I also tried doing this from within R but was unsuccessful: R> Sys.time() [1] "2004-11-11 11:37:53 Eastern Standard Time" R> Sys.putenv(TZ = "GMT") R> Sys.time() # wanted GMT result but did not get it [1] "2004-11-11 11:38:08 Eastern Standard Time" R> R.version.string # Windows XP [1] "R version 2.0.1, 2004-11-04" ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
