diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index d79d3e82545358eb4f0d2d60205fabcd8eb6014a..698f5e2cc314e9d59694eef5f2c6f7fc309cd23b 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ^inst/doc$
 ^\.gitlab-ci\.yml$
 ## unit tests should be ignored when building the package for CRAN
-^tests$
+#^tests$
 ^inst/PlotProfiling\.R$
 ^.gitlab$
 # Suggested by http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/package.html
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 83303e670f70813e68b96ab62cff23e1b509bf75..72a814e0064fb165b672af39a3df2084ce0af18a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ Imports:
     easyNCDF,
     s2dv,
     ClimProjDiags,
-    PCICt,
     stringr,
     methods
 Suggests:
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index a0578085731917b06b9327dbf575eca03c9a3fa5..1b77681ceb3855133d2e0bce57dd95b801a208d7 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export(Start)
 export(Step)
 export(indices)
 export(values)
-import(PCICt)
+import(ClimProjDiags)
 import(abind)
 import(bigmemory)
 import(easyNCDF)
diff --git a/R/NcDataReader.R b/R/NcDataReader.R
index 47817c65e54684380670ab35b2bd928268afce62..66d58fd77077243b9c8e817623a74d5689232b9a 100644
--- a/R/NcDataReader.R
+++ b/R/NcDataReader.R
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@
 #'                            first_round_indices, synonims)
 #'@seealso \code{\link{NcOpener}} \code{\link{NcDimReader}} 
 #'  \code{\link{NcCloser}} \code{\link{NcVarReader}}
-#'@import easyNCDF PCICt
+#'@import easyNCDF ClimProjDiags
 #'@export
+
 NcDataReader <- function(file_path = NULL, file_object = NULL, 
                          file_selectors = NULL, inner_indices = NULL,
                          synonims) {
@@ -303,8 +304,8 @@ NcDataReader <- function(file_path = NULL, file_object = NULL,
                 result_vec[result_i] <- tmp
               }
               # Transfer the strings to time class
-              new_array <- PCICt::as.PCICt(result_vec, cal = 'gregorian')
-              new_array <- suppressWarnings(PCICt::as.POSIXct.PCICt(new_array, tz = "UTC"))
+              new_array <- ClimProjDiags::as.PCICt(result_vec, cal = 'gregorian')
+              new_array <- suppressWarnings(ClimProjDiags::as.POSIXct.PCICt(new_array, tz = "UTC"))
 
 #            if (calendar == 'gregorian') {
 #              # Find how many years + months 
@@ -373,8 +374,8 @@ NcDataReader <- function(file_path = NULL, file_object = NULL,
           }
 
           if (!(units %in% c('month', 'months') & calendar == 'gregorian')) {
-            new_array <- PCICt::as.PCICt(result, cal = calendar, origin = parts[2])[]
-            new_array <- suppressWarnings(PCICt::as.POSIXct.PCICt(new_array, tz = "UTC"))
+            new_array <- ClimProjDiags::as.PCICt(result, cal = calendar, origin = parts[2])[]
+            new_array <- suppressWarnings(ClimProjDiags::as.POSIXct.PCICt(new_array, tz = "UTC"))
           }
           #new_array <- seq(as.POSIXct(parts[2]), 
           #                  length = max(result, na.rm = TRUE) + 1, 
diff --git a/R/Utils.R b/R/Utils.R
index af1cd079a16fd4839d953e3b1f35cc880265f6a0..56a5e54e6c09702765ce89021c6359c2895b7015 100644
--- a/R/Utils.R
+++ b/R/Utils.R
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ write_autosubmit_bash <- function(chunks, cluster, autosubmit_suite_dir) {
     chunk_args[2, ] <- paste0('%JOBS.CHUNK_', n_chunk, '.', chunk_names, '_N%')
     chunk_args <- paste0('(', paste(c(chunk_args), collapse = ' '), ')')
 
+
     bash_script_template <- file(system.file('chunking/Autosubmit/startR_autosubmit.sh',
                                  package = 'startR'))
     bash_script_lines <- readLines(bash_script_template)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-Start-calendar.R b/tests/testthat/test-Start-calendar.R
index 43651ab4fcad07f3ff65aed2bb4954f706a7e951..0ba03c84c7f714d28b2f14864e5e9e41d7cf1859 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-Start-calendar.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-Start-calendar.R
@@ -243,8 +243,11 @@ expect_equal(
 dim(attr(data_obs, 'Variables')$common$time),
 c(date = 4, time = 1)
 )
+
+## NOTE: as.character() behavior changes in R/4.?.?, midnight dates become YYYYmmdd without
+##   the hour information. This is why the unit test fails in the hub.
 expect_equal(
-as.character(attr(data_obs, 'Variables')$common$time),
+format(attr(data_obs, 'Variables')$common$time),
 c("1960-11-16 00:00:00", "1960-12-16 12:00:00", "1961-01-16 12:00:00", "1961-02-15 00:00:00")
 )