Re: [Boost-users] date-time library question

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Something, like this:

date d(2005,06,25);

date_facet date_output;

Just as a note: this code is likely to crash when the stringstream is destroyed and date_output is deleted. You'll want to dynamically allocate these facets as shown in the date-time docs.

I'm probably not the first one to ask. But why is that behavior? Why is there a need for creating the facet in the heap instead on the stack? I'm usually a little picky when it comes to dynamically allocating memory. Thanks, Christian