On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com > wrote:
> It uses hours/minutes/seconds for values < 1 day and uses days and > fractions > of a day otherwise. > Yes, my examples were documenting this idiosyncracy. > For values and operations that it has not considered it falls back to > the internal representation. Yes, my examples were documenting this bad behavior. > Most of your examples start to make sense once you realize this. > Of course I "realize" this. That was the point of my examples. I understand perfectly well what is *causing* the bad behavior. That doesn't make it less bad. What is the point of a class system if functions ignore the class and perform meaningless calculations on the internal representation? -s [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.