[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

[John Fox]

Dear Dustin,

On 2020-08-27 8:26 p.m., Tracy, Josef wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Duncan explained the cause of the problem, but i'm afraid I didn't 
> follow how one solves it.  Did you manage to get a check without that note?

I didn't -- I just disregarded the note assuming that it would go away 
when the time server was back up.

(I've cc'd the R-package-devel list so that others can see your question 
and my response.)

Best,
  John

> 
> Thanks You,
> Dustin
> 
> Dustin Tracy
> 
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> *Subject:* Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"
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> Dear Duncan,
> 
> Thank you and the others who responded to my message.
> 
> John
> 
> On 2020-08-27 2:17 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> R tries to get the time from
>>
>> https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fworldtimeapi.org%2Fapi%2Ftimezone%2FUTC&data=02%7C01%7Ctracy%40chapman.edu%7Ce1a2215e59904aaee08708d84ab888d0%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C637341504003489320&sdata=GHBn6K9Yl7qaRU6tYzAEzymO3751Uczj51xB9c17Zm4%3D&reserved=0 
> or
>> https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fworldclockapi.com%2Fapi%2Fjson%2Futc%2Fnow&data=02%7C01%7Ctracy%40chapman.edu%7Ce1a2215e59904aaee08708d84ab888d0%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C637341504003489320&sdata=psttxEnhMO6MjLyEv%2BchRopHyhLvgCxgqLT0JDPQVys%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> The first one doesn't accept UTC as a timezone; it appears to want
>> etc/UTC instead.  The second one is offline.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>> If both of those fail, you'll get the message you saw.
>>
>> On 27/08/2020 1:23 p.m., John Fox wrote:
>>> Dear r-package-devel list members,
>>>
>>> I got the following note when checking two different packages today
>>> --as-cran, both under R 4.0.2 and under R-devel, on my Windows 10 and
>>> macOS Catalina systems, and on several platforms on rhub:
>>>
>>>     * checking for future file timestamps ... NOTE
>>> unable to verify current time
>>>
>>> I'm writing to inquire about the note because no one else has mentioned
>>> this problem recently, in case it's produced by something that I'm
>>> doing. There is a discussion of a similar problem from 2019 at
>>> <https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fpipermail%2Fr-package-devel%2F2019q1%2F003577.html&data=02%7C01%7Ctracy%40chapman.edu%7Ce1a2215e59904aaee08708d84ab888d0%7C809929af2d2545bf9837089eb9cfbd01%7C1%7C0%7C637341504003489320&sdata=GWnhngNH3UypXzbCzQOOwVHa8q87slWBhEW6n4PthGQ%3D&reserved=0>.
>>>
>>> Both packages that I was checking are close to CRAN releases and so I'd
>>> like to know whether I can disregard the note.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
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