make_datetime creates time in UTC instead of supplied timezone

[t-kalinowski]

This is different from ISOdateTime

lubridate::make_datetime(2016, 10, 15, 0,0,0 , tz = "America/New_York")
[1] "2016-10-14 20:00:00 EDT"
ISOdatetime(2016, 10, 15, 0,0,0 , tz = "America/New_York")
[1] "2016-10-15 EDT"

from the docs:

make_datetime is a very fast drop-in replacement for base::ISOdate and base::ISOdatetime.

[vspinu]

Indeed. force_tz must be used instead. It will slow down the date creation considerably :(.

[vspinu]

Fixed, with new update functionality, this is very fast even for non-UTC tzones.