Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
com> *From:* R-package-devel on behalf of John Fox *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:39 AM *To:* Duncan Murdoch ; r-package-devel@r-project.org *Subject:* Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current tim

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, Thank you and the others who responded to my message. John On 2020-08-27 2:17 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote: R tries to get the time from http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/UTC or http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now The first one doesn't accept UTC as a timezone; it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
R tries to get the time from http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/UTC or http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now The first one doesn't accept UTC as a timezone; it appears to want etc/UTC instead. The second one is offline. Duncan Murdoch If both of those fail, you'll get the message you

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
Dear r-package-devel list members, I got the following note when checking two different packages today --as-cran, both under R 4.0.2 and under R-devel, on my Windows 10 and macOS Catalina systems, and on several platforms on rhub: * checking for future file timestamps ... NOTE unable