[R] system time is 5 hours off in Windows

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

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

> Am I missing a configuration step?  The value returned by date() and
> Sys.time() is five hours later than the system time.  Furthermore,

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.

> Sys.timezone() returns Eastern Daylight Time, whereas we are really
> currently in Eastern Standard Time.  I am running:

That's what Windows calls the time zone.  It means it has the possibility
of DST, I think.

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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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