Hello, All! Why the following code works while input string has wrong delimiters and too large value of seconds? #include #include <iostream> #include <sstream> #include <string> #include <locale> int main() { std::string str("08a02b61 15c10d2008"); std::istringstream is(str); is.imbue(std::locale(is.getloc(), new boost::posix_time::time_input_facet( "%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%Y"))); boost::posix_time::ptime ptime; is >> ptime; if (is) std::cout << ptime << "\n"; else std::cout << "Error\n"; } It outputs: 2008-Oct-15 08:03:01 -- Best regards, Vadim Guchenko [yhw at relost dot net].