type coercion failure despite explicit as.POSIXct

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r
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data

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Reproduce the grouped assignment using the supplied data.table and as.POSIXct example, then trace how the d := expression handles the per-group timezone. Confirm the expected POSIXct values for both timezone groups and add a regression test showing that explicit conversion succeeds when grouped by tz.

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DT = data.table(d = c('Thu 01 Jan 1970, 07:30:00 AM',
                      'Thu 01 Jan 1970, 08:00:00 AM'),
                tz = c('Asia/Singapore', 'Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh'))
DT[ , d := as.POSIXct(d, format = '%a %d %b %Y, %r', tz = .BY$tz), by = tz]

Maybe it's the interaction with by that's causing the failure? I'm not sure....

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