Full_Name: Michael Jacob Version: 1.6.2 OS: Win 2000 SP3 US Submission from: (NULL) (217.110.64.179) I reported in #1332 that at least on my computer, julian() does not work because of the parsing of the default argument 'origin'. It seems that it works, when I set the TZ environment variable. I tried setting it to 'Europe/Berlin', 'MET' and 'MST'. All works, but now Sys.time() reports the time one hour off, e.g system time is 15:10 (3:10 pm), and calling Sys.time() yields [1] "2003-01-28 14:10:25 Eur" (here TZ=Europe/Berlin) Does anybody know, what value TZ has to be, so that this works? Regards, Michael