Hello,<br><br>I think if this feature should be available in boost Date_Time there will be no magic behind as well, so that the lib developer will store these flags for you... And probably not all users will like this idea.
<br><br>IMO the easiest way (if you don&#39;t care about memory usage) is to deal with Date_Time range. From - To. If &lt;from date&gt; equals &lt;to date&gt; than this is the birthday, otherwise, you can specify a quarter, a year, a month, etc. by simply using the range.
<br><br><br>With Kind Regards,<br>Ovanes<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christoph</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:christoph.duelli@gmx.de">christoph.duelli@gmx.de</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is there special support in Boost.Date_Time to support quarters, or (just)<br>years?<br>Consider the following scenario: I have a customer (or patient) whose
<br>(exact) date of birth is not known, only that &#39;he was born in 1960&#39; or<br>in &#39;May 1960&#39; (w/o attached information on month or days).<br><br>Is there another way to handle this (and preserve knowledge about the
<br>incomplete information) besides pretending that month&nbsp;&nbsp;(and perhaps even<br>day) is 1 and storing additional flags about the information being not<br>actually present?<br><br>Best regards<br>Christoph<br><br>_______________________________________________
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