From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Jan 11 15:54:56 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:54:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] seq.POSIXt: & DST (PR#1256)
In-Reply-To: <200201111546.QAA26755@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0201111551370.18667-100000@gannet.stats>

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 jutans@utans.u-net.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Joachim Utans
> Version: 1.4.0
> OS: NT4 sp4
> Submission from: (NULL) (195.42.238.80)
>
>
> seq.POSIXt(..., by="day") apparently has problems steping over
> a change in daylight savings time; 2001-10-28 appears twice,
> the last day, 2001-10-30, is missing

Take a closer look.  It is stepping by days, but that means by 24-hour
days.  Look at it in GMT (there is no such time zone as GMT Daylight Time,
Bill Gates!)

z <- seq(as.POSIXct("2001-10-26"),as.POSIXct("2001-10-30"),by="day")
> format(z, tz="GMT")
[1] "2001-10-25 23:00:00" "2001-10-26 23:00:00" "2001-10-27 23:00:00"
[4] "2001-10-28 23:00:00" "2001-10-29 23:00:00"

which is correct.

> > seq(as.POSIXct("2001-10-26"),as.POSIXct("2001-10-30"),by="day")
> [1] "2001-10-26 00:00:00 GMT Daylight Time" "2001-10-27 00:00:00 GMT Daylight
> Time" "2001-10-28 00:00:00 GMT Daylight Time"
> [4] "2001-10-28 23:00:00 GMT Standard Time" "2001-10-29 23:00:00 GMT Standard
> Time"


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[Rd] seq.POSIXt: & DST (PR#1256)
Prof Brian Ripley