Re: [Boost-Users] [boost::date_time] posix_time::to_simple_string and posix_time::time_from_string

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:07:24 +0100, Russell Hind wrote

These 2 functions don't seem to work together.

to_simple_string will produce a string such as

2003-Jul-08 11:55:47

But time_from_string expects

2003-07-08 11:55:47

This means you can't convert to a string (to store in a text file) then read back in and convert it back to a ptime.

Is this a bug, or have I missed a conversion function that can handle this?

No, this was brought up recently on the developer list. Take a look at this message from the archive: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1686681 Jeff