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From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-24 04:46:36


> I think there are some other considerations here with date-time. What if
> you
> want to replace the short or long strings associated with a month output?
> Or
> I want the 'days of the week' be 'day1', 'day2', instead of 'Sun', 'Mon',
> etc.
> For these cases I think the strings need to get associated with a facet
> instead of a fleeting i/o manipulator. So for example
>
> //let's change all the short month names to have stars around them
> const char* const month_short_names[]={"*jan*","*feb*","*mar*",
> "*apr*","*may*","*jun*",
> "*jul*","*aug*","*sep*",
> "*oct*","*nov*","*dec*"};

All good points, I must admit I clean forgot about Day/Month names.

I quite like Howard's idea of a manipulator that tweaks the facets directly,
it's really just that I find manipulators a whole lot easier to use.

John.


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