On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:58:21 +0200, Yuval Ronen wrote
Sure this would be nice and it has been discussed before. The i/o code is implemented in a way that should allow for this. Patches certainly accepted.
I'll see if I have some free time for this, although I'm not optimistic :-( I just hope that when date_time is accepted to standard ("when" and not "if" :-) ), it will have format manipulators...
My current proposal doesn't have manipulators. However, a recent post by Martin A. about the 'non-standardness' of the date-time facets (not const after imbue) may very well force this to happen in the proposal -- since you couldn't rely on facets to do this. And basically you're arguing that it's inconvenient anyway. In any case, the full breadth of requirements needs to be considered: time types, duration types, periods. I think we would need different manipulators for at least these classes of items -- and probably different manipulators for time types versus date types... Jeff