On 4/24/20 4:02 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
Hi all,

I am testing R 4.0 and ran into an issue with timezones on Ubuntu
Focal: converting a timestamp to another timezone results in NA:

   as.POSIXct(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), tz = "CET"), tz = "EST")

This only happens on Ubuntu Focal, it seems to work fine on Ubuntu
Bionic. I am the standard ubuntu docker image icw/ r-base from Dirk's
ppa:edd/r-4.0 on both systems.

Am I missing a system dependency for tzone data?


I don't really know but I do know that "EST" is often not a specific valid value. It is used by both the USA and Australia. More valid designation would probably be "America/New_York"

The vector of valid names is returned by:

OlsonNames(tzdir = NULL)

--

David.


Jeroen

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