[Boost-users] date/time input facets - what am I doing wrong?

Subject: [Boost-users] date/time input facets - what am I doing wrong?
From: Joe Nardone (jnardone_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-12 11:36:39

I'm trying to get input facets working for dates and times using
time_input_facet.

(Boost 1.33.1 on RHEL5; upgrading is not an option at the moment)

    std::stringstream ss;
    ss.str("Feb 28 16:22:11 2009");
    time_input_facet* tf = new time_input_facet("%b %e %H:%M:%S %Y");
    ss.imbue(std::locale(std::locale::classic(), tf));
    ss.exceptions(std::ios_base::failbit);

    ptime z;
    ss >> z;

    std::cout<< z << std::endl;

This throws an exception - Parse failed. No match found for ''

I figure I'm missing something simple.

(when I try a different format: "%b %e %Y %H:%M:%S" for "Feb 28 2009
11:15:11" I get a "Year is out of valid range: 1400..10000"
exception??)

Thanks for any insight.

joe