From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-20 06:13:16
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:54:35 +0200, Daniel Frey wrote
> Janusz Piwowarski wrote:
> >>We already have a plausible way to represent a
> >>particular month, e.g. Feb/2003. I'd like to be able to write:
> >>
> >> 30/(Feb/2003 + 3*month)
> >>
> >>To get 30/May/2003.
> >
> > Slash isn't normal date separator in all countries. Anyhow, i like it.
>
> Once again, I suggest to use a syntax closer to ISO 8601:
>
> 2003-MAY-30
Which, of course, isn't iso 8601 either because months in 8601 are never
character strings. But I do happen to like your format better as I believe it
is clearer then the 8601 standard :-) No confusion about which part is the month.
> Should IMHO be the most international representation we can find.
I believe what they are talking about is an expression template representation
which is limited by c++ operators. My problem with this (as I said in the
other thread) is that expressions with fixed dates in code is a minor case in
my experience. Most of these expressions in real apps would use dates
serialized from files and databases -- not embedded in c++ code. In files and
databases we want something that is more standard, which the library already
supports.
Jeff