Handling dates when we switch to daylight savings time and back

Question

I would like to use R for time series analysis. I want to make a time-series model and use functions from the packages timeDate and forecast.

I have intraday data in

Answer 1

If you don't want daylight saving time, convert to a timezone that doesn't have it (e.g. GMT, UTC).

times <- .POSIXct(times, tz="GMT")