Re: [Boost-Users] Re: [boost::date_time] posix_time::to_simple_string and posix_time::time_from_string

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-08 12:01:38

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 14:36:33 +0100, Russell Hind wrote
> Jeff Garland wrote:
> > 
> > No, this was brought up recently on the developer list.  Take
> > a look at this message from the archive:
> > 
> > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1686681
> > 
> 
> Thanks Jeff.  Have you any plans to address this in a future release 
> (and if so, which way will you go?)

I'm a little worried about breaking existing code, so
I think the right thing would be to modify the input to accept 
either a string or an integer month in the from_simple_string.

> Your suggested method would output the string as
> 
> 2003-07-08 ....
> 
> But I quite like having the 3 letter month name in there.  Living in 
> the UK, theres always confustion as to whether the day was before 
> the month or not.  I know that when the year comes first, the month 
> comes second but having the month spelled out just removes any 
> chance of this.

I agree totally with this -- it is the reason why the output includes
the 3 letter month.  Unfortunately, I didn't make it consistent...

> For now, I'll implement my own time_from_string method that handles 
> the month as 3 characters.

When you get it working, ship it to me and I will work on including
it in the next release...

Jeff