Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010430092037.00949450@bute.st-and.ac.uk>
Date: 2001-04-30T08:20:37Z
From: Bernie McConnell
Subject: POSIX revisited
Summary of POSIX date-time thoughts ...
>> Brian,
>>
>> May I continue the POSIX thread a little more ...
>>
>> Is there a natural or correct way to represent just time of day, with no
>> associated date, in the POSIX scheme? Is setting date to 1970-01-01 the
>> best / only way?
>
>The best.
>
>> You suggest format(x, tx="GMT") to force POSIX objects to appear as GMT. I
>> take it that this disables the implementation of 'Daylight Time'? I am
>> unsure whether 'GMT Standard Time' and 'GMT Daylight Time' are different
>> time zones or are they both just part of 'GMT' time zone?
>
>GMT means GMT. There is no such thing as `GMT Daylight Time': Windows is
>wrong here. There is GMT/UTC and there is BST.
>
>> Would it be useful to be able e to be globally set all POSIX objects to
>> display as, say, 'GMT Standard ' with a 'global' in options() ?
>
>You just set the timezone in use to that. Sys.putenv(TZ="GMT") for me.
>I'll look into seeing if there is an easier way.
>
>> Finally, I think the that the handling of date-times by POSIX object
>> warrants several paragraphs in 'An Introduction to R' - or perhaps I'm just
>> slow on the uptake!
>
>It's too specialized. There will be an article in the next R-news, though.
...
...
>
>--
>Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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>
>
>
Bernie McConnell
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Gatty Marine Lab, St Andrews University
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