A bugfix release of the anytime package arrived at CRAN earlier today. This is tenth release since the inaugural version late last summer, and the second (bugfix / feature) release this year.

anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to either POSIXct or Date objects — and to do so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page, or the GitHub README.md for a few examples.

This releases addresses an annoying bug related to British TZ settings and the particular impact of a change in 1971, and generalizes input formats to accept integer or numeric format in two specific ranges. Details follow below:

Changes in anytime version 0.2.2 (2017-03-21)

• Address corner case of integer-typed (large) values corresponding to POSIXct time (PR #57 closing ##56)

• Add special case for ‘Europe/London’ and 31 Oct 1971 BST change to avoid a one-hour offset error (#58 fixing #36 and #51)

• Address another corner case of numeric values corresponding to Date types which are now returned as Date

• Added file init.c with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols(); already used .registration=TRUE in useDynLib in NAMESPACE

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More information is on the anytime page.

For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo.

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