One way to avoid the call to timedatectl is to set the `TZ` environment
variable on your machine to your local timezone, if this is set
`Sys.timezone()` uses this and does not try to query timedatectl for the
timezone.
This is a common issue as well in docker containers, as like on WSL in
docker t
That would work.
Sys.info()['release']
# release
# "5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2"
Brenton
From: Martin Maechler
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 03:28
To: Brenton Wiernik
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] Sys.timezone() fails on Linux
> Brenton Wiernik
> on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:15:50 -0400 writes:
> In Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL2),
> there is not system framework, so utilities that depend on
> it fail. This includes timedatectl which R uses in
> Sys.timezone(). The timedatect
In Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL2), there is not system
framework, so utilities that depend on it fail. This includes timedatectl which
R uses in Sys.timezone(). The timedatectl utility is present on Linux systems
installed under WSL/WSL2, but is non-functional. So, when Sy
