[R-SIG-Mac]strptime - Darwin vs Carbon R difference

[Greg Jefferis]

I am using both the carbon(v1.60) and Darwin (r-base 1.6.1 fink updated
today) versions of R with MacOS X 10.2.  I find that there seems to be a
problem with strptime under Darwin - if a bad date is passed it returns
today's date instead of NA.

Carbon R:

> strptime("10/2/2001",format="%d/%m/%Y")
[1] "2001-02-10"
> strptime("",format="%d/%m/%Y")
[1] NA


Darwin R:
> strptime("10/2/2001",format="%d/%m/%Y")
[1] "2001-02-10"
> strptime("",format="%d/%m/%Y")
[1] "2002-11-14"

I presume that this a problem with some external library.  Would anyone be
able to suggest a fix?

Thanks,

Greg.


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