[Rd] Date method of as.POSIXct does not respect tz

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Roland Fuß 
>>>>>     on Wed, 16 May 2018 17:21:07 +0200 writes:

    > R 3.5.0 Is it intended that the Date method of as.POSIXct
    > does not respect the tz parameter? I suggest changing
    > as.POSIXct.Date

which is

     function (x, ...) .POSIXct(unclass(x) * 86400)

    > to this:

    function (x, tz = "", ...)
         .POSIXct(unclass(x) * 86400, tz = tz)

or rather just forward the '...', i.e., use

    function (x, ...) .POSIXct(unclass(x) * 86400, ...)

??

    > Currently, the best workaround seems to be using the
    > character method if one doesn't want the default timezone
    > (which is often an annoying DST timezone).

    > This came up on Stack Overflow:
    > https://stackoverflow.com/q/50373340/1412059

    > --
    > Roland

Thank you Roland for your notice (and the help on SO).

Best,
Martin