On Mon, 30 May 2005 tobias.verbeke@telenet.be wrote:
Full_Name: Tobias Verbeke Version: 2.1.0 OS: GNU/Linux Submission from: (NULL) (81.247.252.229) Would it be possible to use a non-ambiguous example of expressing a day according to the ISO 8601 international standard in the first sentence of the Note section of ?strptime, e.g. "2001-04-18" instead of "2001-02-03" ?
What is ambiguous about that (deliberate) example? The ISO 8601 standard is an international standard, and the meaning of "2001-02-03" is defined there. There is even a reference to the standard on the help page, and the `default formats' are specified under `Arguments'. The point was that people should not guess at the meaning, but follow up the pointers given.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595