Not as yet. Many much bigger users than us (almost all Unix-alike OSes, Java, Tcl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...) have more resources to investigate.

Note that we only use the database on Windows, and only because OS services are woefully inadequate on that platform: we could go back to using those services ....

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Jeff Ryan wrote:

Does anyone from core have a comment on the implications for the R-project on 
this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/

Given the inclusion of the TZ database with R as well as the functionality used 
by R, is this something that the FSF is looking at yet?

Best,Jeff
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