boostorg / boostorg/date_time

Formatting `ptime` does not produce time zone information in the output

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Description

When the time type is `boost::posix_time::ptime`, Boost.DateTime output facets don't produce any output for "%Z", "%z", "%Q" and "%q" flags.

Here is an example:

```
#include
#include
#include
#include

static const char format[] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z";

int main()
{
auto *facet = new boost::posix_time::time_facet(format);
std::locale loc(std::locale(), facet);
std::locale::global(loc);
std::cout.imbue(loc);

auto now = boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::local_time();

std::cout << '"' << now << '"' << std::endl;

std::time_t time_t_now = boost::posix_time::to_time_t(now);
std::tm tm_buf = {};
std::tm* tm_now = boost::date_time::c_time::localtime(&time_t_now, &tm_buf);

char buf[128];
std::strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), format, tm_now);
std::cout << '"' << buf << '"' << std::endl;
}
```

Output:

```
"2023-07-02 17:36:16"
"2023-07-02 20:36:16 +0300"
```

I would expect the time zone format flags to work and result in the current system time zone in the output.

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