[R] Strange behaviour of strptime

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Joerg Maeder wrote:

> Hello,
>
> can anybopdy explain me this?
>
> > strptime('02 03',format= '%y %m' )
> [1] "2002-02-28"
> > strptime('02 03 04',format= '%y %m %d' )
> [1] "2002-03-04"
>
>
> shouldn't the first example return "2002-03-01"?

No, and this is covered in the help file (at least in 1.4.1).

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