[R-pkg-devel] need help addressing future timestamp error

[Gábor Csárdi]

Yes, the time of R-hub's Solaris machine is probably off....

Gabor

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:17 PM Merlise Clyde, Ph.D. <clyde using duke.edu> wrote:
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> I am checking my package for Solaris via rhub and this week have encountered the following error:  "This system is set to the wrong time: please fix".  The output suggests that the time is off by 1 hour.  This occurs only on Solaris, but I am not sure if that is because that is the only platform checking timestamps and it is a problem in my setup -or- it is problem with the rhub configuration.
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> I have tried setting my MAC to use UTC timezone, but still encounter the error. I am also encountering this when building the package under fedora and submitting via rhub.
> (source code is at https://github.com/merliseclyde/BAS)
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> Any suggestions ?   The error seems to stop the build, so I cannot verify if the other parts of the check (testthat output in particular) are successful, which are needed for the CRAN submission.
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> Thanks in advance - Merlise
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> Build ID:       BAS_1.5.5.tar.gz-44c32b29bc7a4127be3adfc60c81e330
> Platform:       Oracle Solaris 10, x86, 32 bit, R-patched (experimental)
> Submitted:      16 minutes 55 seconds ago
> Build time:     16 minutes 54.1 seconds
> ERRORS:
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> * checking for future file timestamps ... ERROR
> This system is set to the wrong time: please correct
>    system: 2020-01-23 21:14 (UTC)
>   correct: 2020-01-23 20:14 (UTC)
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