Re: [Boost-users] Where can I find an example of converting a seconds into a date using boost::date_time?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-08 12:07:58

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 04:37:27 -0500, Stephen torri wrote

> I apologize for the confusion. I have two fact: time of creation and 
> the epoch. The time of creation is given as the number of seconds 
> that have elapsed since the epoch. The value I read from a file 
> header is in seconds. So I want to do:
> 
> Epoch + seconds = date & time.
> 
> Something like:
> 
>  ptime epoch(date(1969,Dec,31), hours(16));
>  seconds s_time (805168227);
> 
>  ptime creation_date = epoch + s_time;
> 
>  std::cout << "File created: " << creation_date.toString();

So all you should need to do is change the output line:
 
 //output the date plus the time
 std::cout << "File created: " << creation_date;

or

 //output just the date part.
 std::cout << "File created: " << creation_date.date();

HTH,

Jeff