On Mon, 30 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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