[Boost-users] date_time question

From: Arkadiy Vertleyb (vertleyb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-20 14:38:22

Hi,

I am looking at the possibility of replacing our custom-made datetime 
classes with the ones from boost::date_time.  The library looks very 
attractive to me, and I would certainly go ahead and use it...  however 
there is (at least) one catch, and this is the snap-to-end-of-month behavior 
of the months duration, according to which:

{2000-Feb-29} + {1 month} = {2000-Mar-31}

The problem is that it contradicts to the XSD spec we are using, 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#adding-durations-to-dateTimes, 
that says that months must be just "pinned to be within range".  Maybe there 
is (could be added) some sort of policy, that could be used to achieve this 
behavior?

Thanks,
Arkadiy