From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Oct 31 10:28:19 2001
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 31 Oct 2001 11:28:19 +0100
Subject: [Rd] strptime bug (PR#1155)
In-Reply-To: <200110310950.KAA11662@pubhealth.ku.dk>
References: <200110310950.KAA11662@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x2ady885oc.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> > ## The beav1 example in  *help[R](plot.POSIXct)* shows two bugs.
> > ## The first is a fundamental error in strptime.
> 
> In your OS's implementation of strptime, not the R code ....
...
> It would be helpful to give the incorrect output that your system gives.
> In the output below I see no evidence of `the times wrap'.  Using the
> wrong day seems to be a bug in glibc's strptime, but you need to unclass
> the strptime result to see this.  (I do see the strptime bug on RH6.2
> Linux, where the day field is ignored.)

RH7.1 too. 
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[Rd] strptime bug (PR#1155)
Peter Dalgaard BSA