ropensci / weathercan

R package for downloading weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada
https://docs.ropensci.org/weathercan
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Switch to UTC #74

Closed steffilazerte closed 4 years ago

steffilazerte commented 5 years ago

Convert all timezones to UTC. Actual times will still represent local time without daylight savings, but the timezone designation will be UTC, rather than Etc+7 etc.

This is to address the problem of half hour timezones as referenced before:


@steffilazerte Given the unique status of Newfoundland, do you anticipate any issues with this?

"Etc/GMT+3.5" %in% OlsonNames()
#> [1] FALSE

Originally posted by @boshek in https://github.com/ropensci/weathercan/issues/59#issuecomment-462488789