[boost] [date-time][threads] Integrating C++0x clocks, time points, and durations into Boost?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-17 07:40:40

A slightly updated version of
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2615.html was 
accepted at the C++ committee meeting last week. It provides clocks, 
time points, and time durations for the C++0x standard library, and 
slightly modifies the threads interface already voted into C++0x to use 
these features. The only change in the version of the proposal actually 
voted in, IIRC, was to leave identity alone. The final document will 
appear in the post-meeting mailing in about two weeks.

Although these clock and time features evolved from Boost Date-Time, the 
actual realization is quite different. So we've got a transition that 
has to be managed. I'd personally like to see that transition occur 
quickly, both because Boost.Threads depends on these features, and 
because I can now bring forward an improved Boost.Timer based on these 
features.

One suggestion is for Boost to provide an implementation of the headers 
to be added to C++0x, and then to use those headers in the various Boost 
libraries that need them. But I haven't thought it out in any detail.

How should we proceed? Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?

--Beman