KLocale::formatDate()

[David Faure]

On Saturday 03 February 2007, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Is there a good reason why there is no static member KLocale::formatDate() 
> that takes a format string (instead of using the locale format string)? That 
> would make the special processing available for the escapes available in more 
> places.
> 
> I'm asking in particular because I found some code that does:
> 
> QString oldFormat = KGlobal::locale()->dateFormat();
> KGlobal::locale()->setDateFormat(newFormat);
> QString formattedDate = KGlobal::locale()->formatDate(date);
> KGlobal::locale()->setDateFormat(oldFormat);

Why doesn't this code create a different KLocale object, set the date format on it, 
and use it to format dates? I believe kspread does this already.
It has the benefit of not messing up the global locale, and it doesn't need massive api duplication
(there are quite a number of methods about formatting and reading dates and times in klocale).

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