Dirk Eddelbuettel: gettz 0.0.6 on CRAN: Maintenance

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…

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