Comment 80 for bug 365065

(In reply to John Ralls from comment #61)
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> What were you planning to use for a date type? GLib's GDate? It's the only
> ready-made date implementation I know of that doesn't have a timezone
> problem, but we're trying to move away from GLib in GnuCash's core,
> preferring the C++ standard library. Unfortunately std::chrono is
> time-oriented and its date type is timezone-sensitive, as are
> boost::date_time and ICU's.

I'm not a C++ developer, but isn't this dealt with by the new date operators in std::chrono?

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/year_month_day

This is discussed in detail in the "Opening Keynote Meeting C++ 2019 - Howard Hinnant - Design Rationale for the chrono Library" at https://youtube.com/watch?v=adSAN282YIw