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From: Gustavo Guerra (gmcg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-25 04:54:19


Oops, the problem was on my side. The date on my PC was wrong.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mattias Flodin wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Mattias Flodin <flodin_at_[hidden]> - http://www.cs.umu.se/~flodin/
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> -- Brendan Hills
>

by gugu


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