Hi, I noticed that as.Date() could not convert date string to date type if the dates are very old. For example, if the date string is "1-Mar-50", then as.Date() would convert this to "2050-03-01", NOT "1950-03-01". This seems to be the behavior of as.Date() for dates older than 1969-1-1, and it is not documented in the R as.Date() documentation. It seems very strange that R would fail to convert old dates correctly. Does anyone know if this is the correct behavior? If so, then which method should one use to convert old dates?
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