----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> To: <boost-users@lists.boost.org> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [date-time]time zone input
No plans at this point. There's a basic problem in that %q/%Q doesn't have enough information to construct a timezone object that has DST rules and such so the only thing the library could do is assume the TZ doesn't have DST. Of course, that mostly a poor assumption so it could lead to nasty errors...
Jeff, Thanks for the reply. There are standards that specificy date-time in formats similar to: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.FFFFFF&ZZZZ Without input support for ZZZZ, we have to implement messy workarounds if we want to continue using boost::date_time. I'm not an expert on date-time so please bear with my naive questions. It is not obvious to me why a simple time zone with only time-offset could lead to nasty errors. Isn't the format above enough to convert a time to UTC unambiguously? Best regards, Sean