RE: [boost] boost support for date/time handling?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-16 11:05:29

Andreas Huber wrote:
> Hello there
>
> I'm really unhappy with the date/time handling facilities currently
> provided by the standard library.

I'm in the process of preparing a submission for date-time...very soon.  I
presented this at the OOPSLA template workshop -- See
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/publications/2001/GDTL.html for some
background.  In general, you are right on track with the type of functions you
want.

> - Both classes are implemented in terms of 64bit integers and
> represent time as a number of ticks (one tick is 100 nanoseconds).

In GTDL is to let user pick the precision and representation type so that the
time-space tradeoff if made by the user via templates.

Jeff