boost::date_time

Hi All,

I very rarely post threads, but I'm just getting back into C++ from pure C (amongst other miscellaneous languages) and I've been trying out boost on my next task. Can anyone give me an idea how I can convert a date time string of Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:25:06 EDT into a boost date_time class? I've tried a number of things, but come up empty. Here's my latest:

Code:

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static std::string get_proper_datetime(const std::string &dt)
{
  boost::gregorian::date_input_facet *date_f =
      new boost::gregorian::date_input_facet("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z");
 
  std::stringstream ss;
  ss.str(dt);
  ss.imbue(std::locale(ss.getloc(), date_f));
 
  boost::local_time::local_date_time ldt(boost::local_time::not_a_date_time);
  ss >> ldt;

  std::cout << ldt << std::endl;

  return "";
}

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which just returns "not-a-date-time".

Thanks!