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...change, and hope it gets changed back.) Yes, this change has been *very* intentional: as.character() for these objects since 4.3.0 (April 2023) finally behaves as other as.character() methods and *does* drop attributes. The NEWS entry (visible since more than a year if you'd follows NEWS.Rd tweats/.. etc) is ? ?as.character(<POSIXt>)? now behaves more in line with the methods for atomic vectors such as numbers, and is no longer influenced by ?options()?. Ditto for ?as.character(<Date>)?. The ?as.character()? method gets arguments ?digits? and ?OutDec?...

In previous versions of R, as.character.Date() retained any names on its input vector. In R 4.3.2 beta, it removes names. Is this change intentional, or a bug? (For what it's worth, I greatly dislike this change, and hope it gets changed back.) $ grep DESCRIPTION /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS" $ R --vanilla R version 4.2.1 Patched (2022-07-09 r82577)