KDED time zone module

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>I want to implement a kded module to read system time zone information,
> as was previously suggested on this list. The aim is to read the data
> only once per session, rather than have each application cause it to be
> read the first time it calls a KDateTime or KTimeZone method requiring
> it. I'm not familiar with kded modules, so can those who are please
> answer a couple of questions:
>
>- Where/how should the kded module store the data it reads? It needs to
> be accessible via KSystemTimeZone. The data is basically fixed - any
> changes would be very infrequent - should it be stored in ksycoca?

Unfortunately, the module has to be able to detect changes in the timezone 
files and that's not that infrequent. Remember that the timezone data 
files change several times per year.

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