Re: [boost] [date_time] Pinging Jeff Garland re new Borland regression

From: Nicola Musatti (Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-29 02:43:43

Jeff Garland wrote:
[...]
> Ok, I've looked at it.  It clearly looks like a DST related problem.  I can't 
> tell if it's a machine configuration problem or a library problem...I just 
> know it's something boost date-time can't really fix.  Essentially the problem 
> is that  std::local_time and std::gmtime are returning a time that's 1 hour 
> ahead GetSystemTimeAsFileTime.  So unless the owner of the machine can 
> diagnose why this has started I guess we should mark this one as expected.

Meanwhile I found that I have the same problem, with both 5.6.4 and 
5.8.2 . I would guess it is a matter of locale not being properly set or 
detected. Does it sound reasonable? Anyway, I personaly have no problem 
with it being marked expected.

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti