importBC_data() date is POSIXct, UTC

[GailR]

The time zone attribute of the date column produced by importBC_data() is incorrectly assigned as UTC (should be Etc/GMT+8 , i.e. Pacific Standard Time).

A reprex:

data <- importBC_data("co", 2018)
(head(data, n = 5))
# A tibble: 5 x 15
date                station_name   station_name_full ems_id  naps_id raw_value rounded_value unit  instrument parameter owner region             validation_stat~ ws    wd   
<dttm>              <chr>          <chr>             <chr>     <dbl>     <dbl>         <dbl> <chr> <chr>      <chr>     <chr> <chr>              <chr>            <lgl> <lgl>
1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 Victoria Topaz VICTORIA TOPAZ    E231866  100304     0.204         0.204 ppm   CO_API300  CO        ENV   01 - Vancouver Is~ VALID            NA    NA   
2 2018-01-01 02:00:00 Victoria Topaz VICTORIA TOPAZ    E231866  100304     0.186         0.186 ppm   CO_API300  CO        ENV   01 - Vancouver Is~ VALID            NA    NA   
3 2018-01-01 03:00:00 Victoria Topaz VICTORIA TOPAZ    E231866  100304     0.199         0.199 ppm   CO_API300  CO        ENV   01 - Vancouver Is~ VALID            NA    NA   
4 2018-01-01 04:00:00 Victoria Topaz VICTORIA TOPAZ    E231866  100304     0.186         0.186 ppm   CO_API300  CO        ENV   01 - Vancouver Is~ VALID            NA    NA   
5 2018-01-01 05:00:00 Victoria Topaz VICTORIA TOPAZ    E231866  100304     0.164         0.164 ppm   CO_API300  CO        ENV   01 - Vancouver Is~ VALID            NA    NA 

(attr(data$date, "tzone"))
# [1] "UTC"

I see that importBC_data uses read_csv. Perhaps setting locale = locale(tz = "Etc/GMT+8") within read_csv will fix the issue?

[GailR]

I'll close this issue - it looks like it has been resolved.

data <- importBC_data("co", 2018)
(head(data, n = 5))
# A tibble: 5 x 15
  DATE_PST            DATE  TIME  STATION_NAME STATION_NAME_FU… EMS_ID NAPS_ID RAW_VALUE ROUNDED_VALUE UNIT 
  <dttm>              <chr> <chr> <chr>        <chr>            <chr>    <dbl>     <dbl>         <dbl> <chr>
1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2018… 01:00 Victoria To… VICTORIA TOPAZ   E2318…  100304     0.204         0.204 ppm  
2 2018-01-01 02:00:00 2018… 02:00 Victoria To… VICTORIA TOPAZ   E2318…  100304     0.186         0.186 ppm  
3 2018-01-01 03:00:00 2018… 03:00 Victoria To… VICTORIA TOPAZ   E2318…  100304     0.199         0.199 ppm  
4 2018-01-01 04:00:00 2018… 04:00 Victoria To… VICTORIA TOPAZ   E2318…  100304     0.186         0.186 ppm  
5 2018-01-01 05:00:00 2018… 05:00 Victoria To… VICTORIA TOPAZ   E2318…  100304     0.164         0.164 ppm 

(attr(data$DATE_PST, "tzone"))
[1] "Etc/GMT+8"