Date/Time in KF5 / Qt5

[David Jarvie]

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 20:54:48 John Layt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the second email in the series of three looking at KLocale in 
> Frameworks 5.  This email covers Date/Time, so I have also cc'ed the PIM 
> mailing list for their input.
> 
> As with QLocale, the lack of features in QDateTime has forced KDE to create 
> our own solutions such as KDateTime, KLocalizedDate and KCalendarSystem at the 
> cost of interoperability with pure-Qt code.  In KF5/Qt5 I want to work to 
> resolve this problem by implementing full support for our required features in 
> Qt.  The discussions held at QtCS were very promising on being able to achieve 
> this.  You can find the notes at 
> http://developer.qt.nokia.com/groups/qt_contributors_summit/wiki/QDateTime
> 
> Time Zones: A feature everyone wants but no-one seems to have the expertise or 
> time to do.  The general consensus was that a new QTimeZone class was required 
> to be embedded in QDateTime with an api based around the Unix/Olsen time 
> zones, but using the host platform time zone system in the background.  This 
> is the same concept as KTimeZone so should meet our requirements.  I'll be 
> trying to co-ordinate this, but I need people to step up and take on the 
> implementation.  Ideally the authors of our time zone support will be willing 
> to port their own code over, or at least review other peoples code 
> submissions.  If not all the most advanced time zone features of KDateTime are 
> accepted we can probably put them into a support class.

Hi John,

Sorry for not replying sooner. I don't have time to take on the work of implementing this, but in any case, I don't think that I'd want to contribute significant new code to Qt unless the licence was purely (L)GPL, or unless (and I wouldn't have time even in that case) I was paid for it. I would be willing to review other people's code, though.

Cheers,
-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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