Thanks for the answer, Jamie.
You mean stuck? Take a look at this ticket: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5034 Yes, sorry for the misspell and the poor description.
If this is the problem you are seeing please add a comment. It is not the same problem. My problems occurs when I set the -DBOOST_DATE_TIME_POSIX_TIME_STD_CONFIG building option, then the boost::this_thread::sleep does not work for any posix::time_duration. The created thread uses all the CPU and it does not sleep nor process the remaining instructions. If the preprocessor definition is removed, the thread can sleep for any time period unless boost::posix_time::nanoseconds. The program uses some time_duration variables to store nanoseconds and that makes the boost::this_thread::sleep not work.
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