[Boost-users] [DateTime]: unexpected boost::local_time::bad_offset caught

Subject: [Boost-users] [DateTime]: unexpected boost::local_time::bad_offset caught
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-30 09:30:37

Hi,

I stumbled over an inconsistency in the Boost::DateTime library. I 
wanted to create a STL map of posix time zones. For this purpose, I 
wrote a mini code generator:

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tz_database tz_db;
tz_db.load_from_file("src/date_time_zonespec.csv");

vector<string> names = tz_db.region_list();

for (vector<string>::iterator it = names.begin();
      it != names.end(); ++it)
    cout << "   timeZones.insert(pair<string, time_zone_ptr>(\""
         << *it << "\", "
         << "time_zone_ptr(new posix_time_zone(\""
         << tz_db.time_zone_from_region(*it)->to_posix_string()
         << "\"))));"
         << endl;
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(Sorry for the bad formatting)

This created lines like the following:

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timeZones.insert(pair<string, time_zone_ptr>("America/New_York", 
time_zone_ptr(new 
posix_time_zone("EST-05EDT+01,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00"))));
[...]
timeZones.insert(pair<string, time_zone_ptr>("Pacific/Kiritimati", 
time_zone_ptr(new posix_time_zone("LINT+14"))));
----------------------------------------------------

The latter (and three others) throws an instance of 
boost::local_time::bad_offset.

Thus, I have posix four time zones from the date_time_zone_spec.csv 
which can be written to a posix string, but the resulting string cannot 
be used to create a new posix time zone.

Its certainly not critical for me. I currently have no need to use 
Pacific time zones, but it looks like an error anyway.

Regards,

Roland