[R-SIG-Mac] Sys.timezone == NA?

[peter dalgaard]

> On 20 Jul 2017, at 19:29 , BATES Timothy <tim.bates at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> On R 3.40, I've been getting some Warnings about timezone, e.g.
> 
> Warning message: In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'default/Europe/London'
> 
> But also Sys.timezone returns NA.... Is this a bug? was there a change in tz moving to 3.4.0?

No, but there seems to have been a bug introduced in MacOS 10.13 _beta_ (!!). We might have to work around it if it persists in the final release, but until then we assume that it is Apple's problem. See also PR#17307.

-pd


> 
> Sys.timezone()
> [1] NA
> 
> R version: R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-02 r72651)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 
> MacOS: 10.13
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