### more date-time tests where the output is to be checked. ## Expect differences, especially for platforms without tm_zone/tm_gmtoff. options(warn = 1L) ## tests of "POSIXlt" objects xU <- strptime("2022-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d", tz = "UTC") xU str(unclass(xU)) x0 <- strptime("2022-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d") x0 str(unclass(x0)) x1 <- strptime("2022-07-01", "%Y-%m-%d", tz = "Europe/London") x1 str(unclass(x1)) # gmtoff is NA ## give offset value -- makes most sense in UTC x2 <- strptime("2022-07-01 10:55:03 +0300", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z", tz = "UTC") x2 str(unclass(x2)) ## in another tzone it will report the time in that zone, with its DST .... x3 <- strptime("2022-07-01 10:55:03 +0300", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z", tz = "Europe/Vienna") x3 str(unclass(x3)) x4 <- strptime("2022-07-01", "%Y-%m-%d", tz ="Pacific/Fiji") x4 str(unclass(x4)) # abbreviations may be numbers. # Kiribati does/did not have DST, so second abbreviation may be repeat or empty x5 <- strptime("2022-07-01", "%Y-%m-%d", tz ="Pacific/Kiritimati") x5 str(unclass(x5)) # does not have DST, hence no DST abbreviation on some platforms ## edge of range and out of range offsets strptime("2022-01-01 +1400", "%Y-%m-%d %z", tz = "UTC") strptime("2022-01-01 -1400", "%Y-%m-%d %z", tz = "UTC") strptime("2022-01-01 +1500", "%Y-%m-%d %z", tz = "UTC") strptime("2022-01-01 -1500", "%Y-%m-%d %z", tz = "UTC") ## extreme values for as.Date (negative ones were wrong in R 4.2.2) as.Date(2^(30:33)) as.Date(-2^(30:33)) ## tm$year will overflow ints in less than 800 milion years from present. as.Date(c(7e11, 8e11, -7e11, -8e11)) ## handling of names # conversion of R objects x <- seq(as.Date("2022-09-01"), by = "weeks", length = 10) names(x) <- paste("week", 1:10) x (xl <- as.POSIXlt(x)) str(unclass(xl)) xx <- as.POSIXct(x, tz = "Europe/London") xx as.POSIXlt(xx) as.Date(xl) # character vector -> R objects y <- format(x) as.Date(y) as.POSIXct(y) (yy <- as.POSIXlt(y)) unclass(yy) strptime(y, "%Y-%m-%d") strftime(y, "%Y-%m-%d") y2 <- paste(y, "10:01:02"); names(y2) <- names(y) fmt <- c("%Y-%m-%d", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z") strptime(y2, fmt[1:2]) strptime(y2, rep(fmt[1:2], length = 15)) # failed to recycle names strftime(xl, fmt) strftime(xl, rep(fmt, length = 15)) x2 <- xl[1:5] x2$year <- xl$year[1:3] x2 # correctly has missing names as NA balancePOSIXlt(x2) # recycles names strftime(x2, fmt) strftime(x2, rep(fmt, length = 10))