Re: [Boost-users] Date time Library: ptime and special_values

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-04 00:02:21

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:35:48 -0700, Matthew_Schuckmann wrote
> The documentation for the date_time library states that a ptime can 
> be constructed from a special value
> e.g.    ptime(special_values sv)    ptime t1(neg_infin);    ptime 
> t2(pos_infin);    ptime t3(not_a_date_time);
> 
> However when I try this with the Cygwin GNU compiler I get a  no matching
> function for call error (see errors below)
> Am I missing something here or is the documentation wrong?

The documentation was wrong -- this was a bug in 1.31 release.  The fix is 
already in CVS.  I believe you should only need to download and patch in the 
latest version of boost/date_time/posix_time/ptime.hpp.  You can get it from:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/boost/date_time/posix_time/

Note the log entry on change:

ptime.hpp    1.4   fix the posix_time constructor to accept special values  

Jeff