Yes, you are absolutely right and I'm pretty sure this will be fixed in
one way or another.
IMO, the failing test should simply use all.equal.POSIXt's new argument
check.tzone=FALSE.
Two simple alternatives modifying all.equal.POSIXt behaviour:
- make check.tzone=FALSE the default: this is inconsistent with other
arguments of all.equal methods, always defaulting to stricter checks
- let all.equal.POSIXt generally ignore the tzone difference if tzone is
unset for one of the objects (similar to check_tzones): I think this is
a bad idea because tzone affects how POSIXt objects are printed, and
under check.tzone=TRUE, two objects shouldn't be considered "nearly
equal" if they print differently.
Best regards,
Sebastian
Am 23.10.20 um 10:28 schrieb Kasper Daniel Hansen:
> So let me try to raise this issue once more, and perhaps be more clear
> about what I think the issue is..
>
> In my opinion there is now a bug in
> make check
> in R-development (tested today with r79361). As I see it, I specify a
> reasonable TZ environment variable and this leads to make check emitting
> an error.
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:28 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Yes, the potential issue I see is that
> make check
> fails when I explicitly set TZ. However, I set it to be the same as
> what the system reports when I login.
>
> Details: The system (RHEL) I am working on has
> $ strings /etc/localtime | tail -n 1
> EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
> $ date +%Z
> EDT
> $ echo $TZ
> US/Eastern
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:48 AM Sebastian Meyer <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the report. In R-devel, all.equal.POSIXt() by default
> reports inconsistent time zones. Previously,
>
> > x <- Sys.time()
> > all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x, tz = "EST5EDT"))
>
> would return TRUE. To ignore the time zone attributes in
> R-devel, the
> argument 'check.tzone = FALSE' needs to be used.
>
> That said, I can reproduce the 'make check' failure in R-devel
> on Ubuntu
> Linux when TZ is set, even if it is set to the system time zone:
>
> $ export TZ=Europe/Berlin
> $ make check
> [...]
> > running code in '../../tests/reg-tests-2.R' ... OK
> > comparing 'reg-tests-2.Rout' to
> '../../tests/reg-tests-2.Rout.save' ...7335c7335
> > < [1] "'tzone' attributes are inconsistent ('' and
> 'Europe/Berlin')"
> > ---
> >> [1] TRUE
>
>
> Compare the following two sessions:
>
> > R-devel --vanilla --no-echo -e 'Sys.timezone(); x <-
> Sys.time(); all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x))'
> [1] "Europe/Berlin"
> [1] TRUE
>
> > TZ='Europe/Berlin' R-devel --vanilla --no-echo -e
> 'Sys.timezone(); x <- Sys.time(); all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x))'
> [1] "Europe/Berlin"
> [1] "'tzone' attributes are inconsistent ('' and 'Europe/Berlin')"
>
>
> So as.POSIXlt() sets a 'tzone' attribute if TZ is set, but this
> behaviour is not new. Even with old R 3.6.3, I see
>
> > R-3.6.3 --vanilla --slave -e 'attr(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()),
> "tzone")'
> [1] "" "CET" "CEST"
>
> > TZ='Europe/Berlin' R-3.6.3 --vanilla --slave -e
> 'attr(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()), "tzone")'
> [1] "Europe/Berlin" "CET" "CEST"
>
> This might be system-specific.
>
> I suggest to modify the test as attached for make check to pass
> in this
> setting.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> Am 01.10.20 um 20:31 schrieb Kasper Daniel Hansen:
> > The return value of Sys.time() today with a timezone of
> US/Eastern is
> > unchanged between 4.0.3-patched and devel, but on devel the
> following test
> > fails
> > all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x))
> > with
> > x = Sys.time()
> >
> > This means that devel does not complete make tests (failure on
> > tests/reg-tests-2.R)
> >
> > It is entirely possible that it is an error on my end, I use
> > export TZ="US/Eastern"
> > but I have been using this for a while, and R-4.0.3-patched
> built today
> > passes make tests.
> >
> > Details below, and I am happy to provide more information.
> >
> > Build platform: inside a conda environment on linux. I have
> been doing this
> > for a while, but it is certainly a non-standard setup. GCC 7.3
> >
> > Best,
> > Kasper
> >
> > On R version 4.0.3 beta (2020-10-01 r79286) I get
> >
> >> x = Sys.time()
> >> attributes(x)
> > $class
> > [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"
> >
> >> attributes(as.POSIXlt(x))
> > $names
> > [1] "sec" "min" "hour" "mday" "mon" "year"
> "wday" "yday"
> > [9] "isdst" "zone" "gmtoff"
> >
> > $class
> > [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt"
> >
> > $tzone
> > [1] "US/Eastern" "EST" "EDT"
> >
> >> all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x))
> > [1] TRUE
> >
> > On R Under development (unstable) (2020-10-01 r79286) I get
> >> x = Sys.time()
> >> all.equal(x,x)
> > [1] TRUE
> >> attributes(as.POSIXlt(x))
> > $names
> > [1] "sec" "min" "hour" "mday" "mon" "year"
> "wday" "yday"
> > [9] "isdst" "zone" "gmtoff"
> >
> > $class
> > [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt"
> >
> > $tzone
> > [1] "US/Eastern" "EST" "EDT"
> >
> >> all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x))
> > [1] "'tzone' attributes are inconsistent ('' and 'US/Eastern')"
> >
> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
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> Kasper
>
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>
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