Re: [boost] Date time query

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-25 06:46:41

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:27:05 -0700, Jeff Garland wrote
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:13:04 -0700, Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote
> > At Saturday 2004-07-24 08:12, you wrote:
> > >On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:24:39 +0100, John Maddock wrote
> > > > Just out of interest, what is the problem that prevents the date-time
> > > > library from implementing a microsecond clock using
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime
> > > > on Win32?
> > >
> > >Nothing except time and motivation of the author ;-) I've been meaning to get
> > >around to it for quite some time now, but it just hasn't made it off the todo
> > >stack -- partially because I haven't had a need for it personally.
> > 
> > having the test blame the compiler it a tad tacky, don'tcha think?
> 
> Well, I agree the comment is misleading -- it's the library not the compiler.
> A correct implementation the POSIX C API's would solve the issue 
> with no work on my part.  But I think the main point is clear -- if 
> you compile and run this test you get a message it isn't supported 
> by this platform for the time being.

One more minor point: the latest versions of Intel and Codewarrior apparently
now support this function on Win32 -- at least of the meta-comm results are to
be believed.  

Look under 'sslapeta' at
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost-regression/developer/date_time.html
I'm pretty sure gcc under cygwin works as well.  So it seems conceivable that
other vendors could fix this instead of boost date-time having to fix it.

Jeff