Re: Unparseable date error

> >> I am not quite understanding how daylight savings time on the computer is an issue. I am US CST with DST and it has never caused me problems. With Weka or Java.
> >
> > The problem is that certain times will never occur (aka are invalid).
> > When the clock switches from 2am to 3am, then the range from 2:00 to
> > 2:59 are all invalid times. If your data and your computer are using
> > the same DST zone, then you're fine. The problem is when you are
> > processing data from outside your zone. The data may actually be valid
> > for the zone that it was collected in but in your own one.
> >
> > Had that problem years ago when failing to import data into MySQL: CSV
> > data from US imported on NZ MySQL server. Took me forever to figure
> > out the reason for that... :-)
> >
>
> OK, I guess I’ve been lucky on that.

Yeah, over the years we've been dealing with CSV files with dates from
around the world. I made sure that the CSV reader in ADAMS can handle
different locales and timezones. :-)

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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