Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] How to create a date fromstringwithspecific format?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-22 10:52:37

Christian Henning wrote:
> Alexandre, the following code will give an exception stating "Error:
> Year is out of valid range: 1400..10000". I don't think the myDate
> object is correctly initialized. Can you check this on your machine,
> please. Can you call myDate.year_month_day()?
> 
> 
>    date_input_facet* pMyFacet = new date_input_facet( "%m-%d-%Y" );
 >
>    std::locale loc( std::locale::classic(), pMyFacet );
> 
>    std::istringstream oo;
>    oo.str( "22-03-2006" );
> 
>    date myDate;
 >...snip...

I'd say the format in the facet and the data don't match -- there is no 
month 22.  If you want the string 22-03-2006 to work try

  date_input_facet( "%d-%m-%Y" )

Also, you will need to imbue the facet into the stringstream:

  oo.imbue(locale(oo.getloc(), date_input_facet))

This is why you are getting the year out of range exception -- because 
the default format for dates expects the year first and 22 is out of range.

Jeff