It reads other formats _if you specify them_. After all, no computer (or human) can tell whether 11/03/1959 is November 3 or March 11 without further hinting. So it tries the two ISO-like formats and leaves other cases for the user.
-pd > On 20 Nov 2021, at 21:22 , Philip Monk <prm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Andrew. I didn't realise as.Date *only* read two formats, I > think I was tripped up by using %y instead of %Y, -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
