Re: [boost] OLE Automation date to local_date_time conversion

Matthew Chambers wrote:

Hello fellow boosters,

Under MSVC boost::date_time supports conversion from FILETIME, so it makes sense to also support conversion from the OLE automation date format, helpfully defined at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.fromoadate.aspx

In fact, I don't see a good reason this function can't be included in a non-MSVC build too since it doesn't depend on the Win32 API in any way.

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Thoughts? What's the procedure to add this officially to date_time?

The best way to do it is to create a feature request ticket on the Trac. I think it would be a nice addition.