R devel - Feb 2016 - %OS on output

R help on 'strptime' has the following in "Details" section.
Specific to R is ?%OSn?, which for output gives the seconds truncated to ?0
<= n <= 6? decimal places (and if ?%OS? is not followed by a digit, it
uses the setting of ?getOption("digits.secs")?, or if that is unset,
?n = 3?).

In reality, for output, if '%OS' is not followed by a digit and
getOption("digits.secs") is unset, the output has no fractional part,
as if n = 0 is used.
> getOption("digits.secs")
NULL
> z <- strptime("20/2/06 11:16:16.683", "%d/%m/%y
%H:%M:%OS")
> format(z, "%OS")
[1] "16"

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via
R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> R help on 'strptime' has the following in "Details"
section.
> Specific to R is ?%OSn?, which for output gives the seconds truncated to ?0
<= n <= 6? decimal places (and if ?%OS? is not followed by a digit, it
uses the setting of ?getOption("digits.secs")?, or if that is unset,
?n = 3?).
>
> In reality, for output, if '%OS' is not followed by a digit and
getOption("digits.secs") is unset, the output has no fractional part,
as if n = 0 is used.
>
That's because n = 0 _is_ used, and appears to have always been the
default (since the logic was added in r37395).  So this appears to be
a typo in the documentation (the comment about "n=3" when digits.secs
is unset was added in r37439).
>> getOption("digits.secs")
> NULL
>> z <- strptime("20/2/06 11:16:16.683", "%d/%m/%y
%H:%M:%OS")
>> format(z, "%OS")
> [1] "16"
>
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