Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:50:04 +0200, Yuval Ronen wrote
Hi. I've used the date_time I/O using facets and found it too complicated. The thing that bothers me is that I need to use a facet to specify the format string (e.g "HH:MM:SS"). This is burdensome. IMO, using facets is fine for defining things which are really locale-related (and are mostly constant during the process lifetime) such as the month names in the local language.
Of course the order of dates *is* locale related. Even in the current standard library there is information in date facet about ordering.
I think the date order is a borderline case. In theory, yes, the order is locale-related and the date_facet can have methods like: void set_dmy_order(); void set_mdy_order(); In practice, however, when specifying the date format ("%Y-%m-%d", for example), this overrides the former order settings, so these settings don't have much (any?) useful usages. P.S: On your other post, you say that you might need to remove the facets for a whole different reason. If this happens, then you can ignore all this...