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Reputation: 1359

reading and writing dates with boost

I am trying to read/write dates in this format: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ

I'm doing this :

boost::posix_time::ptime t = boost::posix_time::time_from_string( "2012-02-20T00:26:39Z" );
std::cout << boost::posix_time::to_iso_extended_string( t ) << std::endl;

it works if I remove the final Z, but if I keep it an exception is thrown (bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target).

Is there a better way to handle those dates, without manually removing/adding the Z? From what I read here and there, I understand the Z means GMT and if it's not present it means the time is in the local time zone. I'd like some generic and bugfree version to read it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2544

Answers (1)

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 5480

Check out the section on formatting strings in the Boost.DateTime IO Tutorial.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#format_strings

I thin you'll find your answers there.

Upvotes: 1

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