Subject: Re: [boost] [date_time] [#1861] Change for the default duration format
From: Ilya Bobir (ilya.bobir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-17 19:38:52
Rutger ter Borg wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> What exactly is wrong?
>>
>
> Streaming of a time duration is broken; IMHO the snippet below shouldn't be
> asserted on. To make things consistent, alternatives could be to impose a
> limit of 100 hours in the concept of a time duration, to introduce a
> limited_time_duration concept, to follow ISO 8601, or to allow more than 99
> hours.
>
>
> time_duration a = hours( 10 ); // OK
> std::cout << a << std::endl; // OK
>
> time_duration b = hours( 100 ); // OK
> std::cout << b << std::endl; // Assertion failure
The assertion is there because the default time duration format is
"%H:%M:%S". This is exactly what I'm proposing to change. I think it
should be "%O:%M:%S" thus imposing no restrictions on the hours field of
a time duration.
Actually, I can not find a notion of a limited time duration in ISO
8601-2004. Instead the third paragraph of section 4.4.3.2 says the
following:
> In these representations the maximum number of digits in a component
> needs to be agreed by the partners in information interchange.
Suggesting that time durations may have variable number of digits for
all fields.