On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:43:45 +1100, Stuart Allie wrote

Hi All,

I've noticed a problem when trying to use ptime with, for example, STL containers and algorithms: the lack of a default constructor for ptime means a lot of the STL container methods just dont work.

For example: std::vector<ptime> v;

v.resize(10); // fails because there is no ptime::ptime() constructor!

So, my questions are: 1. Is there an easy way to work around this?

2. What's the reason for the lack of a default c'tor? (Couldn't it just set the object to not_a_date_time?) 3. Am I missing something obvious and in fact the ptime class is perfectly compatible with the STL?

There is a default constructor in the 1.32 release (should be any minute now) that constructs to not_a_date_time. You should be able to trivially patch your current installation with this change if you don't want to upgrade. Jeff