[boost] Re: thread safety in boost date time

Jeff Garland wrote:

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However, the fact remains that the date_time library uses non-thread safe functions in a way that cannot be controlled by the user. ...snip details...

Yes, as I said earlier it's on the todo list for 1.33. BTW, worst case is that we could make our own localtime_r function in the clock classes.

I'm not sure about this, but I think that the windows multi-threaded C libraries use thread specific storage for functions like 'localtime'. So on that platfrom, they're okay.