Hey, docs say: "There is a list of supported strftime flags by ICU backend:". I didn't build my boost/locale with ICU but still tried what happens when I try as::ftime("%A") an to my surprise I got correctly localized day of the week. My questions are: is it correct that it works without ICU? will it work on other machines (Win 32 bit)? What is the encoding of output string? I am seeing it correctly displayed as utf-8 but would like to know what is happening. Can I ensure utf-8 output? My test code: using namespace boost::locale; generator gen; locale loc=gen(""); std::ostringstream ostr; ostr.imbue(loc); ostr << as::datetime << as::ftime("%A") << info.time; std::String timeStr = ostr.str(); Cheers, Simon -- Szymon Gatner The Lordz Games Studio www.thelordzgamesstudio.com