Hi: Thanks, works perfectly, after modifying to Widestring variants. Regards Sean. From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Surya Kiran Gullapalli Sent: 20 October 2009 08:25 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] date time format On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Sean Farrow <sean.farrow@seanfarrow.co.uk> wrote: Hi: I’ve found this. There appears to be no format flags, that give me both a two digit month, i.e 22 and four digit year i.e 2009. Have I missed something. Sean. you can do something like this. boost::date_time::date d ; std::istringstream is ; is.imbue(std::locale (std::cout.getloc(), new boost::date_time::date_input_facet ("%d %B %Y")) is.str("22 July 2009"); is >> d ; Format flags are documented at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html#da... Surya