Trolltech, Qt 4.2 and KDE 4.0

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 0:41, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:59, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> >Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>> >>Do we have a chance of Qt getting proper time zone handling for
>> >> QDateTime or in some other clever way? This would be very helpful for
>> >> big parts of KDE PIM. Our current solutions are less than optimal and
>> >> something in Qt might be just what we would need.
>> >
>> >Personally, I think it would be nice. I have to check in the office if
>> >it's a shared opinion.
>>
>> Hmm... we already support UTC and Local Time. Is the feature you wanted to
>> support any timezone?
>
>Yes. (Think KOrganizer, e.g. the secretary in Germany setting up a meeting of 
>the executive in the US with the customer in India inviting a colleague from 
>Australia while being on the plane from Russia to Japan, using three 
>different groupware servers, but not messing up the time zones.)
>
>> 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.

Are you saying that the new KTimeZone and KDateTime classes don't meet your needs? If 
so, surely they could be modified. The only part that I am aware of that is still 
missing is cross-platform support, although there is skeleton provision for that. 
Nobody has yet volunteered code.

There are also new ICalTimeZone classs in libkcal. I hope to convert libkcal code to 
use use these classes sometime soon.

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David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html