/* This example demonstrates the use of the time zone database and * local time to calculate the number of seconds since the UTC * time_t epoch 1970-01-01 00:00:00. Note that the selected timezone * could be any timezone supported in the time zone database file which * can be modified and updated as needed by the user. * * To solve this problem the following steps are required: * 1) Get a timezone from the tz database for the local time * 2) Construct a local time using the timezone * 3) Construct a posix_time::ptime for the time_t epoch time * 4) Convert the local_time to utc and subtract the epoch time * */ #include "boost/date_time/local_time/local_time.hpp" #include int main() { using namespace boost::gregorian; using namespace boost::local_time; using namespace boost::posix_time; tz_database tz_db; try { tz_db.load_from_file("../data/date_time_zonespec.csv"); }catch(const data_not_accessible& dna) { std::cerr << "Error with time zone data file: " << dna.what() << std::endl; exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }catch(const bad_field_count& bfc) { std::cerr << "Error with time zone data file: " << bfc.what() << std::endl; exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } time_zone_ptr nyc_tz = tz_db.time_zone_from_region("America/New_York"); date in_date(2004,10,04); time_duration td(12,14,32); // construct with local time value // create not-a-date-time if invalid (eg: in dst transition) local_date_time nyc_time(in_date, td, nyc_tz, local_date_time::NOT_DATE_TIME_ON_ERROR); std::cout << nyc_time << std::endl; ptime time_t_epoch(date(1970,1,1)); std::cout << time_t_epoch << std::endl; // first convert nyc_time to utc via the utc_time() // call and subtract the ptime. time_duration diff = nyc_time.utc_time() - time_t_epoch; //Expected 1096906472 std::cout << "Seconds diff: " << diff.total_seconds() << std::endl; } /* Copyright 2005: CrystalClear Software, Inc * http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com * * Subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. * (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) */