Question

I’m using boost::date_time and I got a time_t, that have been generated by a library using the time() function from the C standard library.

I’m looking for a way get a local time from that time_t. I’m reading the documentation and can’t find any way to do this without providing a time zone, that I don’t know about because it’s dependant on the machine’s locale, and I can’t find any way to get one from it.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

For this task, I’d ignore boost::date_time and just use localtime (or localtime_r, if available) from the standard library.