/* There seems to be something wrong with the month() member function of boost::gregorian::date . if you valgrind the executable of (*this) source file, you will see that some blocks are "possibly lost" and some are also "still reachable". Yet, were you to comment out the line making use of month(), you would see that valgrind sees no problem with the code. what seems to be the problem ? uname -a = Linux Stanford 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux */ #include <boost/date_time/gregorian/gregorian.hpp> using namespace boost::gregorian ; #include <iostream> using namespace std ; int main() { date today( day_clock::local_day() ) ; cout << "year = " << today.year() << endl ; cout << "month = " << today.month() << endl ; cout << "day = " << today.day() << endl ; return EXIT_SUCCESS; }