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Timezone problem with 3.4.2

4 messages · Mark Sharp, Dennis Fisher

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Colleagues

I just installed 3.4.2 on a Mac running High Sierra.

I encountered the following:

R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer"
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[1] "2017-12-01"
Warning message:
In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(Sys.time()) :
  unknown timezone 'zone/tz/2017c.1.0/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles'

There is nothing odd about the date/time settings on the computer.

I then tried:
[1] NA

Previously, there was not a problem with timezones.

Can I override this?  

Any thoughts?

Dennis

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Mark

Thanks for pointing this out.  I did a default installation of R.  Does this mean that I need to reinstall from the command line?

Dennis

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Dennis,

Brian Ripley pointed out shortly after 3.4.2 was released that the timezone was not being set correctly because of last minute changes to MacOS. You will have to install 3.4.3. I am waiting for the native installer, which will likely be out within a few days.

Mark
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