Date / Time Classes.

[mcertini]

I need to find the best time class to use with a program that works with a date/time number in the following format: yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm:ss.ms. Essentially, I am reading values from a flat file (CSV) into a variable and then working with the variable. Does anyone out there know the best class to use? I have researched CFileTime and CTime classes. I do not know if functions within are the best for manipulating time. CTime has been ruled out because it does not accomodate milliseconds. Are there other classes I am not aware of? Lastly is there any references (links) showing how the functions are used.

[R0mai]

Boost::date_time is very versatile.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/date_time.html

[sandeepdas]

Why do you need classes to implement time functions?
If you are working upon linux then you can simply use system calls and make your own class. That will be faster :-)

[mcertini]

R0mai and sandeepdas,

Thank you for your responses.

Sandeepdas, I am not working on Linux.

[bluecoder]

How do you implement this thing or this time format in windows without boots lib. ?

[mcertini]

Does anyone know how to import this through a DLL? I suppose it would be an import from Boost DLL into an intermediate DLL and then imported into the end MQL4 script.