The safest option is probably to raise an error. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Jacob Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmmmm.......it's not entirely clear to me what we should do here. > > On the one hand, when you ask to have the typemax(Date) formatted, it's > currently doing what you asked, "formatting the year with 4 digits". > Because your year in this case is greater than 4 digits, that results in > truncation, which probably isn't what you want. But is it ok to give you > all the digits even though you only asked for 4? I'd appreciate any other > thoughts/input on this. > > I do think the Date/DateTime parsing/formatting code needs another once > over to polish it up, so any ideas on allowing more > flexibility/functionality would be appreciated. > > -Jacob > > > > On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:33:25 AM UTC-6, Michael Francis wrote: >> >> It seems that there is an issue with typemax of dates and string >> representation >> >> julia> using Dates >> >> >> julia> Dates.format(typemax( Date ),"yyyy-mm-dd" ) >> "1149-12-31" >> >> >> julia> typemax( Date ) >> 252522163911149-12-31 >> >> >> julia> Dates.format(typemax( Date ),"yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy-mm-dd" ) >> "252522163911149-12-31" >> >> This hidden truncation seems dangerous. Has anybody else seen this ? >> >
