CDEC actually accounts for daylight savings time as documented in https://info.water.ca.gov/misc/sql_dates.html. The correct timezone timezone “US/Pacific” is now used.
The CDEC timezone was incorrectly specified as “Etc/GMT-8”. The correct timezone “Etc/GMT+8” is now used.
The CDEC Web Services underwent changes over the period of August 2-7 which modified the data output format. Functions in this package were updated to accomodate this new format.
Some functions were renamed and arguments were added to support drop-in replacement of cder for the now-removed package ‘CDECRetrieve’. Old function names have been soft-deprecated.
New functions cdec_search_*() were added to support the exploration of metadata on CDEC. These are largely just wrappers around browseURL(), since the CDEC web services do not currently support metadata searches.