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system time is 5 hours off in Windows

2 messages · Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov, Brian Ripley

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Am I missing a configuration step?  The value returned by date() and
Sys.time() is five hours later than the system time.  Furthermore,
Sys.timezone() returns Eastern Daylight Time, whereas we are really
currently in Eastern Standard Time.  I am running:

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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     x86
os       Win32
system   x86, Win32
status
major    1
minor    2.1
year     2001
month    01
day      15
language R


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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov wrote:

            
That I have not seen.  Entirely possible, given Windows bugs. I am really
sick of having to correct their mistakes in standard C library functions
in this area.
That's what Windows calls the time zone.  It means it has the possibility
of DST, I think.