[boost] Re: date_time -> ptime

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-05 14:46:54

"Iain K. Hanson" <iain.hanson_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:34, Joel de Guzman wrote:
>
>> In my ET implementation (no it's not part of date_time yet, AFAIK), 
>> I allow:  Y/M/D and M/D/Y only. 
>> 
>> Pardon the confusion, 1/Jan/1970 is indeed an illegal date (asserts)
>
> So you are allowing US date format M/D/Y but not European date format
> D/M/Y. Thats a little US centric, is it not?

Yeah, it does to me too.  The Euro format is a lot less ambiguous.
The problem is that if you allow 1970/Jan/1  and 1/Jan/1970 you have
an ambiguity problem which you can only sort out at runtime, and only
if the user isn't using years in the first century A.D.

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Dave Abrahams
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