[Development] Using Howard Hinnant's date.h and tz.h for QDateTime and QTimeZone internals

[Milian Wolff]

Hey John, Qt people.

At CppCon Howard Hinnant had a talk on his date.h and tz.h library, which 
looks excellent:

http://howardhinnant.github.io/date_v2.html
https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/blob/master/date.h
https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/blob/master/tz.h

The API seems excellent to me, and should also allow us to reuse it to 
implement QDateTime and especially QTimeZone internals with it. The big factor 
in favor here is that his library comes with a good C++ parser for the IANA 
timezone data base. This should allow us to drop the ICU dependency for 
timezones and simplify the code as well, I assume.

What do you (all) think?
-- 
Milian Wolff | milian.wolff at kdab.com | Software Engineer
KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company
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