Format dates using the international ISO 8601 standard
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Description
Format dates using the international ISO 8601 standard, unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
# Good
lubridate::as_date("2019/07/19")
#> [1] "2019-07-19"
# Bad
lubridate::as_date("07/19/2019")
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> [1] NA
# Bad
lubridate::as_date("19/07/2019")
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> [1] NA
Created on 2019-08-01 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. First locate the date formatting or date-producing resources in the repository, then compare their output with ISO 8601 and identify any exceptions that need justification. Done means applicable dates use the specified standard and existing checks or examples reflect that format.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100