[R] Changing date format

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/10/2014, 8:27 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Frederic Ntirenganya
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:32 PM
>> To: Jim Lemon
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Changing date format
>>
>> This idea substract 1 for the all column which is not what i want.
>>
>> We know that the leap years have 366 days. I don't need to change
>> anything on them
>>
>> the non-leap years have 365 days. This is what i want to change to be
>> 366 days rather than 365 days.
> 
> But this is a question of calendar reform not R. I must admit it would be a tough job as leap day is needed to stay in tune with solar year. Your suggestion would quickly result in out of sync with the Sun.

R Core is powerful, but I doubt if we could reform the calendar in this
way.

And I'd be against it in any case:  I like to swim on my summer
vacations, but if August slipped into the winter, the lakes around here
would be frozen.

Duncan Murdoch