>
> Finally, thank you for your explanation of 1899 timestart. For some
> reason, I always thought 01-01-1970 was the day from which count
> begins in R.


The 1899 base only applies to RBloomberg, not R in general. See
documentation for COMDate class in RDCOMclient.

?"COMDate-class"

R itself uses a 1970 base.

> ?DateTimeClasses

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