POSIXct class assigned incorrectly about r-bridge HOT 5 OPEN

Confirmed that this is a bug with {arcgisbinding} CC @dpavlushko

library(arcgisbinding)
#> *** Please call arc.check_product() to define a desktop license.
arc.check_product()
arc.check_portal()

url <- "https://services1.arcgis.com/vkTwD8kHw2woKBqV/arcgis/rest/services/ESCAD_Current_Incidents_Public/FeatureServer/0"

tmp <- arc.open(url) |> 
  arc.select()

class(tmp$Response_Date)
#> [1] "POSIXt"  "POSIXct"

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That's very odd. I do not know what happens with arcgisbinding, but arcgislayers uses as.POSIXct() to create the date time field. Perhaps there is somewhere else upstream where your class is being modified? I will create a feature service with date time to test with.

https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/blob/494e17003c3fa5ca08ab2b5b9365126f01b15701/R/utils-dates.R#L42C1-L42C1

In the mean time here is a simple function to fix your classes with:

x <-  Sys.time()

class(x) <- rev(class(x))

restore_posixct <- function(x) {
  if (identical(class(x), c("POSIXt", "POSIXct"))) {
    class(x) <- rev(class(x))
  }
  x
}

class(x)
#> [1] "POSIXt"  "POSIXct"
class(restore_posixct(x))
#> [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

Note that as.POSIXct() will not reorder the class attributes nor will lubridate::as_datetime() which leads me to think this might be a bug in dplyr or vctrs where the class order is being checked perhaps too strictly.

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In the case of {arcgislayers}, the class is assigned correctly. Will report back with the result of arcgisbinding.

library(arcgis)
#> Attaching core arcgis packages:
#>   - {arcgisutils} v0.1.0
#>   - {arcgislayers} v0.1.0

url <- "https://services1.arcgis.com/vkTwD8kHw2woKBqV/arcgis/rest/services/ESCAD_Current_Incidents_Public/FeatureServer/0"
arc_open(url) |> 
  arc_select() -> tmp

class(tmp$Response_Date)
#> [1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

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Fortunately a super simple fix that I'll try and address next week. It's just one line that needs to be changed. @Nova-Scotia, otherwise you can use arcgislayers to get the class assignment correct, or you can use the helper function above in the mean time. Sorry about this!

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Thank you so much @JosiahParry! It took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out what was happening... as usual making a minimal reproducible example helped me ferret out the issue.

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