Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] binary serialization / integer representation

Igor R wrote:

I also can't see any access to the internal value, so what you can do instead is to make some time_duration, and use it instead of the absolute ptime. Like this:

pt::ptime epoch(greg::date(1970, 1, 1)); // or some other reference point pt::time_duration duration = t - epoch; boost::int64_t diff = duration.total_seconds(); // or total_microseconds() or ticks() Similarly, you can reconstruct the ptime later.

Thanks, it comes close to a solution, it would take some more work to represent special values. It is kind of reimplementing the counted time system stuff :-/ Perhaps a memcpy() of a ptime will do the trick, too. Cheers, Rutger