[R] TIme Zone error

[William Dunlap]

> 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 using 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.
>
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