Why does the following incorrectly subtract 4 hours from times = ?20:00:00??
date = "03/31/10" times = "20:00:00" as.POSIXct(chron(date, times, format=c(dates="M/D/Y", times="hh:mm:ss")))
[1] "2010-03-31 16:00:00 EDT? Thanks, Paul
POSIXct and chron error
2 messages · Paul Ossenbruggen, Louis Springer
Posix time is UTC or GMT and you displayed that as EDT. 16:00 EDT is 20:00 GMT/UTC
On Sep 23, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Paul Ossenbruggen <pjo at cisunix.unh.edu> wrote:
Why does the following incorrectly subtract 4 hours from times = ?20:00:00??
date = "03/31/10" times = "20:00:00" as.POSIXct(chron(date, times, format=c(dates="M/D/Y", times="hh:mm:ss")))
[1] "2010-03-31 16:00:00 EDT? Thanks, Paul [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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