[R] why is as.date function not working for me? (dd/mm/yyyy h:mm)

[Jeff Newmiller]

You must deal with identifying the time zone. I have found that setting TZ environment variable appropriately for the data before converting character values to POSIXct gives me the best results. This is actually easier for standard-time-only data than for data with daylight savings time transitions. For example I use

Sys.setenv(TZ="Etc/GMT+8")

for year-round Standard time in California.

The chron library offers an alternative approach that intentionally ignores time zones, but I have not found it so useful for my purposes as POSIXct.
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On February 6, 2014 1:30:22 PM PST, jcrosbie <james at crosb.ie> wrote:
>This function returns date/times without timezone
>strptime(dates,format="%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")
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