Re: [boost] [date_time-1.32.0] XML serialisation and not-a-date-time

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-20 22:54:22

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:24:55 +0100, Russell Hind wrote
> I've been serialising date_time stuff (ptimes to be specific).  They 
> weren't initialised when we were loading old files as they didn't 
> containt the information, so when the file is saved in the new 
> format, we get an entry in the XML archive:
>
>...snip detail...
> 
> I realise 'not-a-date-time' is invalid, and would be happy if the 
> serialise failed in both directions, but currently it succeeds to 
> write it to an oarchive, but fails to read it from an iarchive.
> 
> I don't mind which way we go (i.e. both valid or both invalid) but 
> have oarchive working and iarchive failing isn't overly useful really.

Fixes/tests for this are in CVS now.  If it is a not-a-date-time or +-
infinity when serialized out, it will have the same value when read back in.  

Thx for the report.

Jeff