Re: [Boost-users] Parsing RFC 822 date/time

18 Sep 2005

      Hi,

Jeff Garland wrote:
...
You are exactly right.  For the base time information you should be able to do
the following (I didn't test this)...
time_facet* timefacet = new time_facet("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S");
Mmm... I even can't get this to compile.

date_test.cc:17: error: use of class template `template<class time_type,
class
   CharT, class OutItrT> class boost::date_time::time_facet' as expression

That's my test case:

#include <cxxtest/TestSuite.h>
#include <sstream>
#include "boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp"
#include "boost/date_time/time_facet.hpp"

using namespace boost::posix_time;
using namespace boost::date_time;

class DateTest: public CxxTest::TestSuite
{
    public:
        void TestConvert()
        {
            time_facet* timefacet = new time_facet("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S");
            std::stringstream ss;
            ss.str("Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT");
            ss.imbue(std::locale(std::locale::classic(), timefacet));
            ptime t;
            ss >> t;
        }
};

(Using version 1.32.0 with gcc 3.3.6)
...
Probably a better approach would be to check out the spirit grammer for rfc822
written by Peter Simons.  Look for 'rfcdate' at
Thanks a millon! This looks interesting.

Regards,

Tobias

Re: [Boost-users] Parsing RFC 822 date/time

Tobias Grimm