Trolltech, Qt 4.2 and KDE 4.0

[Frans Englich]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:24, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> >> That might be difficult to accomplish in a platform-independent
> >> manner.
> >
> >That's exactly why it would be fantastic to have it in Qt. I know that
> > it's not an easy problem, but the benefit would be enormous. With our
> > half-working solutions we are only attracting trouble especially when
> > considering a cross-platform world.
>
> We already have trouble supporting local time and universal time...
> imagine doing that for all timezones...
>
> That would mean, basically, KTimezone: a way to list all known timezones
> and allow converting to and from UTC.

There have been a lot of timezone/time/date discussions here on k-c-d. If you 
reach the same functionality as KDateTime, I think you're very close to 
saturating the demands.


Cheers,

		Frans