Hi All
In trying to correlate some tide gauge data I need to deal with varying
timezones. From the documentation on strptime, it seemed that the tz
variable might have some effect on the conversion, but I'm not seeing an
effect.
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="PST")+0
[1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST"
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="")+0
[1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST"
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="GMT")+0
[1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST"
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="UTC")+0
[1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST"
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="EST")+0
[1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST"
What is the recommended way of handling this? Computing and adding
offsets manually?
> strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="UTC")+3600*3
[1] "2006-12-01 04:02:00 EST"
Or am I doing something wrong with the strptime(..., tz="EST") function?
Thanks for your time,
Dave
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