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Hi all, I am testing R 4.0 and ran into an issue with timezones on Ubuntu Focal: converting a timestamp to another timezone results in NA: as.POSIXct(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), tz = "CET"), tz = "EST") This only happens on Ubuntu Focal, it seems to work fine on Ubuntu Bionic. I am the standard ubuntu docker image icw/ r-base from Dirk's ppa:edd/r-4.0 on both systems. Am I

...missing a system dependency for tzone data? I don't really know but I do know that "EST" is often not a specific valid value. It is used by both the USA and Australia. More valid designation would probably be "America/New_York" The vector of valid names is returned by: OlsonNames(tzdir = NULL) -- David. > > Jeroen > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

...names for time zones to IANA's 'Olson' names has been updated. When ICU is available (it is by default), it is used to get a mapping for the current region set in Windows. This can be overridden by setting environment variable TZ to the desired Olson name - see OlsonNames() for those currently available. GRAPHICS: * The graphics engine version, R_GE_version, has been bumped to 16 and so packages that provide graphics devices should be reinstalled. * The grDevices and grid packages have new functions for rendering typeset glyphs,...

...names for time zones to IANA's 'Olson' names has been updated. When ICU is available (it is by default), it is used to get a mapping for the current region set in Windows. This can be overridden by setting environment variable TZ to the desired Olson name - see OlsonNames() for those currently available. GRAPHICS: * The graphics engine version, R_GE_version, has been bumped to 16 and so packages that provide graphics devices should be reinstalled. * The grDevices and grid packages have new functions for rendering typeset glyphs,...