On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:40:05 +0300, Peter Dimov wrote
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.
Yep -- each element is individually replaceable. So you can change your date format, month strings, day of the week strings, period formatting, etc a piece at a time. To reset the format you just call 'format' with the new string. Jeff