ssDate: ssDate Objects
In tis: Time Indexes and Time Indexed Series

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The function ssDate is used to create ssDate (spreadsheet date) objects, which are useful for reading and writing dates in spreadsheet form, i.e., as the number of days since December 30, 1899.

as.ssDate and is.ssDate coerce an object to a ssDate and test whether an object is a ssDate.

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ssDate(x, ...)
as.ssDate(x)
is.ssDate(x)

`x`	object to be tested (`is.ssDate`) or converted into a `ssDate` object.
`...`	other args to be passed to `jul` function.

an ssDate is essentially a rebased Julian date that represents a date as the number of days since December 30, 1899. The constructor function ssDate subtracts jul(18991230) from jul(x, ...) and coerces the result to class ssDate. Pretty much all of the stuff you can do with jul objects can also be done with ssDate objects.

is.ssDate returns TRUE or FALSE.

as.ssDate coerces its argument to have class ssDate, without making any attempt to discern whether or not this is a sensible thing to do.

ssDate constructs a ssDate object like x.

ssDate with no arguments returns the ssDate for the current day.

jul

dec31 <- ssDate(20041231)
jan30 <- ssDate("2005-1-30")
jan30 - dec31              ## 30
feb28 <- jan30 + 29
ssDate()                      ## current date