[Boost-users] date formatting problem

30 Nov 2008

      Hi,

I'm trying to read dates in "%d%m%Y" (DDMMYYYY). Unfortunately, it
doesn't work. Here is the code:

#include <string>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <iostream>
#include "boost/date_time/gregorian/gregorian.hpp"
using std::string;
using namespace boost::gregorian;
using boost::date_time::not_a_date_time;
using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;
using std::locale;

int main()
{
     try {
         date dt( not_a_date_time );

         date_facet* facet(new date_facet("%d%m%Y"));
         cout.imbue( locale( cout.getloc(), facet ) );
         cin.imbue( locale( cin.getloc(), facet ) );
         cout.exceptions( std::ios_base::failbit );
         cin.exceptions( std::ios_base::failbit );

         cin >> dt;
         cout << dt << endl;
     } catch ( const std::exception& e ) {
         cout << typeid(e).name() << " " << e.what();
     }
     return 0;
}

Here program output:
...
18111957
struct boost::gregorian::bad_month Month number is out of range 1..12
If date is assigned programmaticaly, then cout does work as expected and
the date output is in %d%m%Y format.

I've tried boost 1.33.1 and 1.36

What's wrong with my code?

TIA

[Boost-users] date formatting problem

Sergey Skorokhodov