KF5: Parsing times with timezone abbreviations

[Kevin Kofler]

Hi,

what is the recommended way to parse times with short timezone
abbreviations, such as "16:00 CET", in Qt 5 / KF5 land? (I am asking because
this is the format the BBC is using for weather observation times in their
RSS files.)

In kdelibs 4, this should do what we want:
dateTime = KDateTime::fromString(timeString, "%H:%M %Z").toLocalZone().dateTime();
but KDateTime is deprecated in KF5.

I looked at:
* QDateTime, but neither of the 2 QDateTime::fromString overloads in Qt 5.2
  support the needed format, at least according to the documentation. The
  one that takes a string does not support time zones (or so the
  documentation says), the one that takes an enum entry does not support the
  required format either.
* QTimeZone, but I cannot find a straightforward (documented) way to get a
  QTimeZone from only the short abbreviation. I guess one could go through
  all the availableTimeZoneIds and checking if the abbreviation matches, but
  that won't necessarily give the expected (most probable) result
  (especially if the abbreviation is not unique), will it?

        Kevin Kofler