[Rd] strptime bug (PR#1155)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> > ## The beav1 example in  *help[R](plot.POSIXct)* shows two bugs.
> > ## The first is a fundamental error in strptime.
> 
> In your OS's implementation of strptime, not the R code ....
...
> It would be helpful to give the incorrect output that your system gives.
> In the output below I see no evidence of `the times wrap'.  Using the
> wrong day seems to be a bug in glibc's strptime, but you need to unclass
> the strptime result to see this.  (I do see the strptime bug on RH6.2
> Linux, where the day field is ignored.)

RH7.1 too. 
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