Re: [boost] Re: Date-Time

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-20 06:13:16

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:54:35 +0200, Daniel Frey wrote
> Janusz Piwowarski wrote:
> >>We already have a plausible way to represent a
> >>particular month, e.g. Feb/2003.  I'd like to be able to write:
> >>
> >>    30/(Feb/2003 + 3*month)
> >>
> >>To get 30/May/2003.
> > 
> > Slash isn't normal date separator in all countries. Anyhow, i like it. 
> 
> Once again, I suggest to use a syntax closer to ISO 8601:
> 
> 2003-MAY-30

Which, of course, isn't iso 8601 either because months in 8601 are never
character strings.  But I do happen to like your format better as I believe it
is clearer then the 8601 standard :-)  No confusion about which part is the month.

> Should IMHO be the most international representation we can find.

I believe what they are talking about is an expression template representation
which is limited by c++ operators.  My problem with this (as I said in the
other thread) is that expressions with fixed dates in code is a minor case in
my experience. Most of these expressions in real apps would use dates
serialized from files and databases -- not embedded in c++ code.  In files and
databases we want something that is more standard, which the library already
supports.

Jeff