Hi, I want to set a specific Timezone for my R environment, with below syntax:> Sys.getenv("Asia/Calcutta")[1] "">But it sets to some blank timezone. I checked with OlsonNames(), to see available zones for R, where I found "Asia/Calcutta" available. I idea why R failed to set timezone properly? Thanks for your time. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> Sys.setenv(TZ="US/Eastern") > as.POSIXlt("2019-01-26 01:19")[1] "2019-01-26 01:19:00 EST"> Sys.setenv(TZ="Asia/Calcutta") > as.POSIXlt("2019-01-26 01:19")[1] "2019-01-26 01:19:00 IST" (Sys.getenv("Asia/Calcutta") returns the value of the environment variable "Asia/Calcutta". It does not set a value.) Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:15 PM Christofer Bogaso < bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I want to set a specific Timezone for my R environment, with below syntax: > > > Sys.getenv("Asia/Calcutta") > > [1] "" > > > > But it sets to some blank timezone. > > I checked with OlsonNames(), to see available zones for R, where I found > "Asia/Calcutta" available. > > I idea why R failed to set timezone properly? > > Thanks for your time. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Read the help file ?as.POSIXct "" as time zone is not an error. On January 26, 2019 1:15:21 PM PST, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:>Hi, > >I want to set a specific Timezone for my R environment, with below >syntax: > >> Sys.getenv("Asia/Calcutta") > >[1] "" > >> >But it sets to some blank timezone. > >I checked with OlsonNames(), to see available zones for R, where I >found >"Asia/Calcutta" available. > >I idea why R failed to set timezone properly? > >Thanks for your time. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.