[Rd] as.Date() , feature or bug?

[Uwe Ligges]

Bo Peng wrote:

>>Well, bug, if you really want to call it a bug that you cannot represent
>>the year 6666. ;-)
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> So I guess we need a warning message and a line in help(as.Date)?

Even better a fix (than an *error* message), since the POSIX classes can 
handle the date and I do not (yet) see the reason why Date cannot. But I 
have no time to dig deeper (at least not this week).


Uwe Ligges


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