From nhorton at scinix.smith.edu  Tue Mar 18 20:00:36 2008
From: nhorton at scinix.smith.edu (nhorton at scinix.smith.edu)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:00:36 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] ambiguous example in as.Date() documentation (PR#10990)
Message-ID: <20080318190036.766112834159@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>


<<insert bug report here>>

The note in the as.Date() documentation is ambiguous (is it referring
to February 3rd, 2001, or March 2nd, 2001?)  While it is certainly true
that one could peruse the ISO 8601 standard to determine which ordering
is correct, changing the example day to one where the day value is >12
would resolve the ambiguity.

Current Note:

     The default formats follow the rules of the ISO 8601 international
     standard which expresses a day as '"2001-02-03"'.

Proposed Note:

     The default formats follow the rules of the ISO 8601 international
     standard which expresses a day as '"2001-04-29"'.


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Version:
 platform = i386-redhat-linux-gnu
 arch = i386
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i386, linux-gnu
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 5.1
 year = 2007
 month = 06
 day = 27
 svn rev = 42083
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)

Locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

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[Rd] ambiguous example in as.Date() documentation (PR#10990)
nhorton at scinix.smith.edu