On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > >>> Well, bug, if you really want to call it a bug that you cannot represent >>> the year 6666. ;-) >> >> >> 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).
Well, actually they cannot. There is a limit of dates +/- 5000 years from the epoch (1970-01-01). This should have returned NA, and now does. What does anyone want such dates for? I hope there was an extremely good reason to spend other people's time on this, and look forward to an extremely convincing explanation. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel