Verify translation between timestamps between DSS and R's POSIXt class

[eheisman]

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[cameronbracken]

Does DSS even specify time zone?

[eheisman]

It can under the properties timeZoneID and timeZoneRawOffset for a TimeSeriesContainer. I was more thinking about two issues:

1. DST isn't accounted for in either POSIXt or HecTime timestamps, but PST != PDT on an hourly model. Also, I believe I've run into problems with POSIXt on R on Windows saying PDT isn't a valid timezone, but R's Sys.timezone() returning "PDT". It would be nice to check if the DSS data has a timezone assigned, and use it, if not assigned, default to the system's timezone.

2. How does POSIXt handle 00:00 vs 24:00 hrs on a given day? If I recall correctly, for a HecTime object, it handles them as start of day and end of day respectively, 24 hours apart. - Not really an issue given the current method of translation, but I had a slower function that translated it through a string.