Re: [boost] Issues in Boost Date Time Library

From: Mattias Flodin (flodin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-25 03:35:24

There's an amusing irony in that a posting with the title "Issues in
Boost Date Time Library" dated August 25th is to arrive in my mailbox
today. :)

It's not the first time I have this happen on the Boost mailing list;
are some messages being held for ages by the mailing list daemon, or are
they simply marked wrongly by the originating email client?

/Mattias

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:13:00AM +0100, Gustavo Guerra wrote:
> Hi
> I'm going to need to do some work that involves time and dates, so I started
> to look at the Boost Date Time Library.
> I was a little disappoint, thought, of its documentation. Shoudn't the "Full
> Doxygen Reference Manual", currently a link from the docs to an online
> location, be included in the docs that will come in the next release?
> There's a lot there that's not documented on the main docs. And that
> reference online doesn't seems to be updated, it still references Generic
> Date Time Library 0.57.
> 
> 
> The file class_greg_base_facet.html isn't linked from anywhere, and has
> roughly the same contents of date_iterators.html
> 
> - file class_date.html:
> 
> in the table Construction From String, second example is wrong. Should be
> 
> std::string ds("20020125");
> date d(from_undelimited_string(ds))
> 
> instead of
> 
> std::string ds("20020125");
> date d(from_string(ds))
> 
> - file class_date_period.html:
> 
> in the table Construction, the first example, the first description and the
> second syntax are wrong. Should be:
> 
> Syntax   |  Description   |    Example
> date_period(date begin, date last)  |  Create a period as [begin, end). If
> end is <= begin then the period will be defined as null.  |  date_period
> dp(date(2002,Jan,10), date(2002,Jan,12));
> date_period(date start, date_duration len)  | Create a period as [begin,
> begin+len). If len is <= zero then the period will be defined as null.  |
> date_period dp(date(2002,Jan,10), date_duration(2));
> 
> in the table Accessor, the examples for intersection and merge are wrong

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