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...ndefined. And `undefined' is itself defined in the standards. The Windows documentation does not say what it does (nor does the glibc documentation), not even that it is system-specific. In fact the MSDN docs for strftime say Characters that do not begin with % are copied unchanged to strDest. (Make of that what you can.) Where standards are referred to, please do consult them. The kind people who develop R have even provided links to them at http://developer.r-project.org/Portability.html -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistic...

Full_Name: Jeff Hallman Version: 2.3.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (132.200.32.34) Internal(format.POSIXlt(as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()), "%Y%m%d%q", F)) Linux R-2.2.1 returns "20060613%q". Windows R-2.3.1 returns "20060613" dropping the "%q". The documentation says "Any character in the format string other that the '%' escape