Re: [boost] [datetime] IANA Time Zone Database

Subject: Re: [boost] [datetime] IANA Time Zone Database
From: Maxim Yegorushkin (maxim.yegorushkin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-09 05:25:20

On 09/11/12 05:57, Markus Raab wrote:

> Artyom Beilis wrote:
>> You can use Boost.Locale that is compiled with ICU backend.
>>
>> ICU supports Time Zone database and you can specify the timezone by its
>> name, parse time or create
>>
>> date_time object and get POSIX (UTC) time form it.
>
> On POSIX systems with tzdata installed Boost.Locale could also have this
> feature without ICU. Any plans to do this?

Not sure if it could, since there is no official API in C standard 
library to do timezone conversions between arbitrary timezones and UTC. 
Only between the local timezone and UTC. 
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11620

-- Maxim