Thank you again Gabor, that did the trick. Any thoughts on where I go go for a reference for these time codes? Where did you get "CDT6CST" from? Or is this just one of those things that is "common knowledge" in UNIX circles.
To the R developers: I recommend a sentence be added to the manual for as.POSIXxx such as "vales for tz are system dependent, examples for common systems are....." Thanks! On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Only "" and "GMT" are really guaranteed to work on all systems > since the time zones are system dependent but try: "CDT6CST" > and see if that works on your system. > > > On 3/7/06, Jason Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Whoops, >> >> [EDIT] >> >> as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC") ... works, gives UTC times >> as.POSIX(x, tz="EST") ... works, gives EST times >> >> as.POSIX(x, tz="CST") ... does NOT work, gives UTC times >> >> [/EDIT] >> >> On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Jason Horn wrote: >> >>> as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC") ... works, gives UTC times >>> as.POSIX(x, tz="UTC") ... works, gives EST times >>> >>> as.POSIX(x, tz="CST") ... does NOT work, gives UTC times >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [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 >> > ______________________________________________ [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
