[R-SIG-Mac] POSIXct and chron error

[Paul Ossenbruggen]

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


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[Lou Springer]

Posix time is UTC or GMT and you displayed that as EDT. 16:00 EDT is 20:00 GMT/UTC

Post by Paul Ossenbruggen
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
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