[Boost-users] Using date/time to format date strings

27 Oct 2007

      Hi all,
I'm trying to use the date time library to to do some string formatting
but I'm afraid there's something I'm missing. What I'd like to do is
feed in a string "05/Aug/2007 11:30" and convert it to an ISO formatted
string - could anyone point me in the right direction?

I've examined both the documentation and the sample code in
io_tutorial.cpp but I'm afraid it hasn't helped - the code below is as
far as I've gotten and simply returns the input string unchanged.

I'm using boost 1.34.1 with MSVC 2005.

Thanks much,
Andrew

//Begin snippit
string formatDate(string inpDate)
{
  stringstream ss;
  local_date_time checkDate(not_a_date_time);
  local_time_input_facet* input_facet = new local_time_input_facet();
  local_time_facet* output_facet = new local_time_facet();

  ss.imbue(locale(locale::classic(), output_facet));
  ss.imbue(locale(ss.getloc(), input_facet));

  input_facet->format("%d/%b/%Y %H:%M");
  output_facet->set_iso_format();

  ss << inpDate;

  return ss.str();
}