Suppose I have a cross-platform agent that communicates with a server.  Agent from platform X sends a message to the server which contains a date/time.  Server sends a message to another agent running platform Y with the same date/time.  In practice X/Y are always either windows/linux or linux/windows.  The server always tells the agent which platform&#39;s native format the time is represented in, so there should be no problem.  Ideally I&#39;d like to write the following code:<br>
<br>    ptime time;<br>    if (msg.is_from_windows()) <br>    {<br>        time = from_ftime&lt;ptime&gt;(msg.time());<br>    }<br>    else <br>    {<br>        time = from_time_t(msg.time());<br>    }<br><br>But this doesn&#39;t work because from_ftime&lt;&gt; is not defined on linux.  If from_ftime&lt;&gt; is already templated on the FILETIME type, is there any reason it needs to be #ifdef&#39;d out on non-windows platforms?  Or does someone maybe have another solution to being able to support the use-case I&#39;ve mentioned above?<br>
<br>Zach<br>