Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:04:56 +0300, Peter Dimov wrote
Jeff Garland wrote:
I think there are some other considerations here with date-time. What if you want to replace the short or long strings associated with a month output? Or I want the 'days of the week' be 'day1', 'day2', instead of 'Sun', 'Mon', etc. For these cases I think the strings need to get associated with a facet instead of a fleeting i/o manipulator.
You are right. However there are legitimate cases where I might want both. That is, override the locale-specific month names using a facet _and_ choose a strftime-style date format independently. So I think that you need both a facet (for storing locale-dependent information for %a, %A, %b, %B, %c, %p, %r, %x, %X, and the other locale-dependent specifiers) and a manipulator for the format string.
Yep, I can see the convenience of having the manipulator. For now though users will have to reset formats thru the facets...
That's OK as long as you can reset the default format without erasing all locale-dependent information, such as month names.