R version 3.5.0 RC (2018-04-15 r74605) -- "Joy in Playing" Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > #### Test R's (64-bit) date-time functions .. output tested *sloppily* > > ## R's internal fixes are used on 32-bit platforms. > ## macOS gets these wrong: see HAVE_WORKING_64BIT_MKTIME > > Sys.setenv(TZ = "UTC") > (z <- as.POSIXct("1848-01-01 12:00")) [1] "1848-01-01 12:00:00 UTC" > c(unclass(z)) [1] -3849940800 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-01-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-01-01 12:00:00 UTC" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2209032000 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-07-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-07-01 12:00:00 UTC" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2224756800 > > Sys.setenv(TZ = "Europe/London") # pretty much portable. > (z <- as.POSIXct("1848-01-01 12:00")) [1] "1848-01-01 12:00:00 GMT" > c(unclass(z)) [1] -3849940800 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-01-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-01-01 12:00:00 GMT" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2209032000 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-07-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-07-01 12:00:00 BST" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2224753200 > > Sys.setenv(TZ = "EST5EDT") > (z <- as.POSIXct("1848-01-01 12:00")) [1] "1848-01-01 12:00:00 EST" > c(unclass(z)) [1] -3849922800 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-01-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-01-01 12:00:00 EST" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2209050000 > (z <- as.POSIXct("2040-07-01 12:00")) [1] "2040-07-01 12:00:00 EDT" > c(unclass(z)) [1] 2224771200 > > ## PR15613: had day as > 24hrs. > as.POSIXlt(ISOdate(2071,1,13,0,0,tz="Etc/GMT-1"))$wday [1] 2 > as.POSIXlt(ISOdate(2071,1,13,0,1,tz="Etc/GMT-1"))$wday [1] 2 > > > ## Incorrect use of %d should work even though abbreviation does match > old <- Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "C") # to be sure > stopifnot(!is.na(strptime("11-August-1903", "%d-%b-%Y"))) >