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Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and solved in 10.4
Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1 or later

First bug. See output of DateListPlot[%]
Second bug. See output of DateListPlot[wtiInflationAdjusted["Path"]]

Ran across this (possible bug) today.

Here's historical West Texas Intermediate oil prices:

wti = TimeSeries[Import["https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist_xls/RWTCd.xls", "XLS"][[2, 4 ;; -2]]];
wti = TimeSeriesMap[Quantity[#, "USDollars"] &, wti]

It plots nicely.

DateListPlot[wti]

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Now to put the data in 2016 dollars and plot:

wtiInflationAdjusted = InflationAdjust[wti, {2016, 1, 1}];
DateListPlot[%]

And, well, it fails spectacularly for MMA 10.3 on Win7 x64 (also happens on OS X).

We can go about it another way:

DateListPlot[wtiInflationAdjusted["Path"]]

...and we actually get a plot, albeit with a $Failed error thrown in:

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The only way I can get around an error is to do a ridiculous Quantity conversion:

take2 = TimeSeriesMap[
 Quantity[QuantityMagnitude[#], "USDollars"] &, InflationAdjust[wti, {2016, 1, 1}]];
DateListPlot[{wti, take2}]

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Any ideas? User error or bug?

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  • $\begingroup$ I'll give this until tomorrow before I slap the "bug" tag on it. $\endgroup$
    – kale
    Commented Jan 25, 2016 at 20:24
  • $\begingroup$ I went ahead and reported to Wolfram and applied the bugs tag since this post got a sarcastically-huge amount of interest! $\endgroup$
    – kale
    Commented Jan 26, 2016 at 19:48
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    $\begingroup$ same on V.10.3 + Win 10, but no problem on 10.0 + Win 10 (same machine). Definitely, it is a bug. $\endgroup$
    – garej
    Commented Jan 26, 2016 at 21:39
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    $\begingroup$ I added the bug header and specified two bugs. The main bug (evaluation of DateListPlot[%]) is solved as of 10.4; the second (error message of First) persists through 11.0.1 or later. In case the latter should not be considered as a bug, please remove the corresponding parts in the header. $\endgroup$
    – user31159
    Commented Nov 9, 2016 at 13:45

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Wolfram confirmed bug. Assigned to [CASE:3521328].

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  • $\begingroup$ @bbgodfrey So the answer (as a CW, by the way) a) confirms that is a bug and b) refers to the case number that Wolfram is using. Disagree with your assessment. $\endgroup$
    – kale
    Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 16:22
  • $\begingroup$ @bbgodfrey I am fairly certain this has been discussed by the community before, because I remember personally being on the side of allowing an authoritative "it is a bug" as an answer. If you disagree with this position I encourage you to post on Mathematica Meta, though please first search to see if a discussion already exists there. $\endgroup$
    – Mr.Wizard
    Commented Jan 30, 2016 at 21:03
  • $\begingroup$ @Mr.Wizard I am happy to accept your advice and shall delete my comment. Thanks. $\endgroup$
    – bbgodfrey
    Commented Jan 30, 2016 at 21:26

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