Re: [boost] Re: Re: Date-Time Library and __DATE__

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-28 20:02:35

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:36:28 -0800 (PST), David Sankel wrote
> >Thanks.  I was planning on modifying parse_date to
> take the order as a 
> >parameter (eg: ymd, mdy, etc) and thus would open up
> many other formats as 
> >well -- while I was in there.... 
>  
> >So it would look like: 
>  
> >parse_date(const std::string& s, ymd_order_spec
> order) 
> 
> Great.
> 
>     date t =
> boost::date_time::parse_date<date>(std::string(
>         __DATE__),
>         ymd_order_us);
> 
> works for me.  

This has been checked into CVS BTW.  You can drop to the parse_date level, but
it is less stable. The best way is to do as follows:

  using namespace boost::gregorian;
  date d = from_us_string(__DATE__);
  
There is also a 
  date d = from_uk_string("29-Feb-2000");
or
  date d = from_uk_string("29 Feb 2000");

This isn't in the docs yet, but there are tests in
date_time/test/gregorian/testparse_date.cpp.

Jeff