RFC: addition of generic timezone support to kdelibs

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

In KStars, we have our own internal representation of timezones, so I'm 
definitely interested in using this class.  How are you handling the various 
"daylight savings" rules?  I guess unix zoneinfo takes care of it?  Anway, 
just in case you need it, our code is here:

kdeedu/kstars/kstars/timezonerule.[h|cpp]
kdeedu/kstars/kstars/data/TZrules.dat

Jason

> I spend a lot of time talking to people in different timezones, and it 
> occurred to me that having good (multi-)timezone support is something that 
> several KDE apps could benefit from.
> 
> I was wondering if there might be interest in having kdelibs support for 
> timezones? My thinking is that the immediate need is for something to 
> abstract the OS timezone support, this could be built on in individual apps 
> (kclock and korganizer's agenda view come to mind), and possibly eventually 
> even consider centralised support in kcontrol.
> 
> If people think this is auseful idea, I'll start with a KTimezone class and 
> kclock.
> 
> Comments solicited.
> 
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