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

[BATES Timothy]

Thanks all. I updated to 3.4.1 and still get NA. So, in-lnline with Peter’s explanation, ii’s OS 10.13. beta specific.

However… In this process, I pressed cmd minus to reduce the text size in my R.app console and got this set of warnings, which seem worth passing on as well:


2017-07-21 01:29:15.835 R[81838:2478070] -[NSNull bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fffe0a44250
2017-07-21 01:29:15.841 R[81838:2478070] *** RController: caught ObjC exception while processing system events. Update to the latest GUI version and consider reporting this properly (see FAQ) if it persists and is not known. 
*** reason: -[NSNull bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fffe0a44250
*** name: NSInvalidArgumentException, info: (null)
*** Version: R 3.4.1 (72865) R.app R 3.4.1 GUI 1.70 El Capitan build
Consider saving your work soon in case this develops into a problem.
2017-07-21 01:29:15.861 R[81838:2478070] -[NSNull bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fffe0a44250
2017-07-21 01:29:15.862 R[81838:2478070] *** RController: caught ObjC exception while processing system events. Update to the latest GUI version and consider reporting this properly (see FAQ) if it persists and is not known. 
*** reason: -[NSNull bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fffe0a44250
*** name: NSInvalidArgumentException, info: (null)
*** Version: R 3.4.1 (72865) R.app R 3.4.1 GUI 1.70 El Capitan build
Consider saving your work soon in case this develops into a problem.


> On 20 Jul 2017, at 10:29 pm, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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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