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

[Roland Fuß]

Hello,

May I follow up on this? Has it fallen through the cracks or were there 
considerations against passing `tz` to `.POSIXct`?

Regards,

Roland

Am 17.05.2018 um 19:55 schrieb 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

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