Proposed new KDateTime class

[David Jarvie]

On Monday 05 Dec 2005 13:51, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:50:04AM +0000, David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 00:41, Tobias Koenig wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> > > We can use enums for the subclasses. Isn't there a limited number of
> > > possible timezones anyway?
> >
> > The problem is that anybody could subclass KTimezone. There will be a
> > subclass for iCalendar time zones (already committed in libkcal), but
> > there could be subclasses for any new type of time zone source, if it
> > turned out that some application needed to access it.
>
> Do we really need this flexibility? Which functionality of KTimezone must
> be variable exactly? Reading/transforming the timezone information?
> Couldn't this be done by an external helper class?

What sort of helper class do you envisage?
>
> We really need the functionality of serializing objects in KDE PIM 4.0!

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David Jarvie.
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