Re: [Boost-users] Possible bugs in date_time package

From: Gregory J. Sharp (gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-27 11:29:06

On 27Feb2007, at 10:58 , Jeff Garland wrote:

> The main problem is that the time_from_string function is expecting  
> a complete
> time (eg: 2006-12-26 00:00:00), not just a date.  I believe all of  
> these will
> parse correctly if you do this:
>
>     using namespace boost::gregorian;
>     date d = from_string("2006-12-06");
>
> which can trivially be turned into a ptime if that's what you need.

Thanks. I didn't see the requirement that it have a time component in  
the manual. Perhaps it is worth adding a note about that?

The fact that it silently accepts "2006-12-06" but does the wrong  
thing(TM) with it, is also a worry.

I will try to make a time_from_Gstring() function that parses more  
aggressively, since I also prefer to avoid things like "2006-05-06  
123" being a valid time, in my application.

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