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I need to format my ptime in such way Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:51:30 GMT How to do such thing with boost? (so it would look like data format of HTTP servers Expires and Last-Modified and Date response headers )

rcollyer
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Rella
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904317/c-boost-date-with-format-dd-mm-yyyy
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3786201/parsing-of-date-time-from-string-boost     –  Apr 16 '11 at 20:53

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#include <locale>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp>

std::string current_time_formatted()
{
    namespace bpt = boost::posix_time;

    static char const* const fmt = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT";
    std::ostringstream ss;
    // assumes std::cout's locale has been set appropriately for the entire app
    ss.imbue(std::locale(std::cout.getloc(), new bpt::time_facet(fmt)));
    ss << bpt::second_clock::universal_time();
    return ss.str();
}

See Date Time Input/Output for more information on the available format flags.

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