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Gabor Grothendieck · 2004-12-23T20:02:04Z

Dirk Eddelbuettel > My thanks to Whit for adopting its and releasing the 1.0.4 release. After > upgrading, I noticed that I now seem to be falling into the TZ pit: intraday > data read from a csv file "shows" the right time stamps when displayed. > > However, when plotted, the axis is shifted back to UTC which is now imposed > in a few places in the code. I tried to overcome this by explicitly setting > a tz argument in readcsvIts, but no luck. > > Anybody else bitten by thi

its and TZ

Gabor Grothendieck

Thu, Dec 23, 2004 12:02 PM #

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

One workaround, depending on your situation, might be to set 
your computer or process to GMT.

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Thu, Dec 23, 2004 12:17 PM #

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

Confirmed -- adding

  TZ="GMT"
  
in ~/.Renviron does the trick. I'll keep an eye out to see if this has other
side effects.

Dirk

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