[Development] QTime microsecond support

Sean Harmer sean.harmer at kdab.com
Thu Oct 15 15:06:44 CEST 2015


On Thursday 15 Oct 2015 12:18:22 Edward Sutton wrote:
> +1 for naming QTimeSpan with support for arithmetic operators.

Andre and I did start something along these lines way back before Open 
Governance if anybody wants to pick it up.

It was at

https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests/1014

but seems it's unavailable right now.

Cheers,

Sean

> 
> On Thursday 15 October 2015 02:09:07 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > Maybe you could look into forking QTime with the microseconds changes?
> > That could be reasonable even within Qt.
> 
> Indeed, that would.
> 
> We'll have to have a long discussion on what to name the class, though...
> QTimeExtended? QExtendedTime? QTimeV2? QMicroTime? QTimeSpan?
> 
> If you're going to do this, you'll need a 64-bit integer anyway, so you may
> as well provide nanosecond support. --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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