Re: [boost] Low-level precision timer proposal

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-18 10:50:38

Silex wrote:
>> For whatever datatype the "elapsed" function returns, I think we had
>> better have istream/ostream overloads for it. The current one returns
>> "double", which works fine with istream/ostream. The overload should
>> return or parse secs.fracsecs in all various forms.
> 
> Interesting, but this is a change request for the date_time lib then ?
> Maybe there's already an ostream& operator<< for the
> boost::posix_time::ptime etc types, I'll have a look.

There is and it does what you would expect with fractional seconds, etc. 
   (eg: 00:00:01.1234567).  With a facet you can control the format of 
the output.

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html

Jeff