Lower case time zone issue

["Tzamouranis, Ioannis C" <Yannis.Tzamouranis@constellation.com>]

Folks,

For some reason, SPLUS 7.0, build B7487 as of Dec 04 does something odd. It produces a lower case time zone:

> date()

[1] "Fri Jun 16 08:31:15 edt 2006"

This can be a problem in several cases.  For example, if you were to do :

timeDate(date(), in.format="%w %m %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y", format="%Y%02m%02d")

the result would be an NA.

After a lot of checking e.g.

> options("time.in.format")

> options("time.out.format")

> options("time.out.format.notime")

> options("time.zone")

> timeZoneC()

> timeZoneList()  

> Options > Settings under Data and Startup tab

as well as checking the Win XP time/date settings, it all came out as it should be; Insightful did offer a work-around by defining a new time zone but I am still curious as to whether anyone has seen similar behavior.

Any ideas what might be causing it?

Thanks,

Yannis Tzamouranis

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