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Make working with dates in R just that little bit easier
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Consider passing through date-time objects in parser functions #739

Open vspinu opened 5 years ago

vspinu commented 5 years ago

Beginner R users often pass date-time objects to parsing functions like ymd_hms. This is very inefficient and can cause unexpected behavior (for example ymd_hm would not parse a full date). Directly returning an appropriate date-time when passed in a date-time object would avoid such issues.

hadley commented 4 years ago

Probably worth also warning, to help people learn good practice.