Another minor routine update 0.0.6 of gettz arrived on CRAN just now.
gettz provides a
possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails
to determine the system timezone. That happened when e.g. the
file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into the
corresponding file with zoneinfo data in,
say, /usr/share/zoneinfo. Since the package was written (in
the fall of 2016), R added a similar extended heuristic approach itself
making the package a little less relevant.
This release reflects several rounds of updates to the continuous integration setup, some URL updates, as well as some updates to packaging including use of Authors@R in DESCRIPTION. As with the previous releses: No functional changes, no new code, or new features.
Thanks to my CRANberries, there is a diff to the previous release. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker off the GitHub repo.
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