as.POSIXct的时区不起作用

时间:2018-05-16 14:15:12

标签: r date posixct

我有一个包含日期的数据框,我正在尝试将其转换为POSIXct对象,但我无法指定时区。知道为什么会这样吗?

> str(dates)
'data.frame':   3171 obs. of  3 variables:
$ Date     : Date, format: "2013-05-14" "2013-08-15" "2014-05-30" "2014-09-29" ...
$ BB_Ticker: Factor w/ 1252 levels "A US Equity",..: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
$ 1Y       : POSIXct, format: "2013-05-13 20:00:00" "2013-08-14 20:00:00" "2014-05-29 20:00:00" "2014-09-28 20:00:00" ..

我尝试指定"America/New_York"以及"EST5EDT",但它没有效果 -

> head(as.POSIXct(dates$Date, tz = "GMT"), 3)
[1] "2013-05-13 20:00:00 EDT" "2013-08-14 20:00:00 EDT" "2014-05-29 20:00:00 EDT"

> head(as.POSIXct(dates$Date, tz = "America/New_York"), 3)
[1] "2013-05-13 20:00:00 EDT" "2013-08-14 20:00:00 EDT" "2014-05-29 20:00:00 EDT"

> head(as.POSIXct(dates$Date, tz = "EST5EDT"), 3)
[1] "2013-05-13 20:00:00 EDT" "2013-08-14 20:00:00 EDT" "2014-05-29 20:00:00 EDT"

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:4)

如果你查看as.POSIXct.Date的源代码,你会看到:

function (x, ...) 
.POSIXct(unclass(x) * 86400)
<bytecode: 0x00000000120de6e0>
<environment: namespace:base>

注意没有时区传递给.POSIXct

您可以改为使用字符方法:

as.POSIXct(as.character(as.Date("2013-05-14")), tz = "GMT")
[1] "2013-05-14 GMT"