Re: [Quantlib-dev] todaysDate in localtime ?

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:22 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> In ql/time/date.cpp we have
> 
>     Date Date::todaysDate() {
>         std::time_t t;
> 
>         if (std::time(&t) == std::time_t(-1)) // -1 means time() didn't work
>             return Date();
>         std::tm *gt = std::gmtime(&t);
>         return Date(Day(gt->tm_mday),
>                     Month(gt->tm_mon+1),
>                     Year(gt->tm_year+1900));
>     }
> 
> I'd like to be able to use std::localtime instead as I just got bitten when I
> asked for todaysDate() here in UTC+6 and got tomorrow's date instead.  
> 
> Shall I add that with a binary toggle to turn localtime on/off with a default
> to off, i.e. existing behaviour?

Ouch.  You're right.  We should probably use localtime as the default.
Objections?


> I'd also love a Date() constructor from "yyyymmdd" or
> (long) yyyymmdd as just relying on the Applix/Excel number is a tad
> restrictive.

You can use DateParser in <ql/utilities/dataparsers.hpp>.

Luigi


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