Re: [Boost-users] some simple questions on Date/Time parsing and formatting

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] some simple questions on Date/Time parsing and formatting
From: Václav Zeman (vhaisman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-20 13:11:51

On 03/19/2012 10:10 PM, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> The Boost function ptime from_iso_string seems to only take part of a
> ISO 8601 date string.  In particular, strings coming from XML will
> have a trailing Z.  Even knowing that we will always get 'Z' and not
> some arbitrary timezone information, it seems a kludge to truncate the
> last character from the string before feeding it to a function that
> claims to parse an ISO date/time string.  Am I missing something?
>
> Second, is there a simple function to format a ptime using the
> conventions of the current Locale?  I see functions for "simple" and
> "iso", but user-facing output (as opposed to creating an XML file)
> needs to use local conventions.

See
<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#date_time.io_tutorial>.
It shows how to imbue streams with modified locales that can output the
date_time values.

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VZ