dst_POSIXct: Return POSIXct time from 7 variables.

In rwunderground: R Interface to Weather Underground API

Description

In locations with a Daylight Saving/Standard time change that occurs twice annually, the year has one 23 hour day and one 25 hour day, if by day we mean "an ordered set of all instants in time which are assigned the same date". In the US/Los_Angeles timezone, there is one day in the spring where are no valid times between the moment before 02:00:00 and 03:00:00. Similarly, there is one day in the fall where there are two instants described by all times between 01:00:00 and 01:59:59, first as a set of PDT times, then as a set of PST times. as.POSIXct() doesn't handle this case well. Times inside this region are assigned to DST until the sequence of clock times has a time which is the same or earlier than its predecessor, and all subsequent ambiguous times are assigned to Standard Time.

Usage

dst_POSIXct(y, m, d, hr, mn, sec, tz)

Arguments

y	vector of years
m	vector of months
d	vector of days
hr	vector of hours
mn	vector of minutes
sec	vector of seconds
tz	vector of timezones

Value

POSIXct time assuming vectors sorted by true chronological order, at least for the hour that "occurs twice", once with Daylight Time, then again with Standard Time. If there are no nonmonotonicities in the times, all times in this hour will be assumed to be Daylight Time.

rwunderground documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:46 a.m.