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Subject: Re: [boost] [DateTime] Cannot handle 64bit seconds
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-16 11:51:14


On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Roland Bock wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when transforming a unix time into a boost::posix_time::ptime, the value of the unix time is truncated to long in for method boost::posix_time::from_time_t.
>
> As a result, -4260211200 is represented by some ptime in the year 1971, but it should be 1835.
>
> Or, in other words Boost.DateTime has the year 2038 problem.

You should definitely create a Trac ticket for this...

        https://svn.boost.org/

-- Marshall


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