I just upgraded to 1.33.0, and am getting a bunch of compilation errors with the current version of greg_month.cpp: The list of errors starts with: c:\boost\boost_1_33_0\boost\date_time\gregorian\formatters.hpp(34) : error C2977: 'date_formatter' : too many template arguments c:\boost\boost_1_33_0\boost\date_time\date_formatting_limited.hpp(114) : see declaration of 'date_formatter' c:\boost\boost_1_33_0\boost\date_time\gregorian\formatters.hpp(40) : see reference to function template instantiation 'class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > __cdecl boost::gregorian::to_simpl e There are 31 errors in all. Using VC++ 6.0 on XP Service Pack 2. I would appreciate any gentle pointers as to what I might be doing wrong. Doc