[Development] Calendar Systems proposal

[Lars Knoll]

Sure, that there’s more to do than just the examples I listed. Still, design wise it might be a good idea to have this functionality in a class separate from QDate. We’ve done the same design decision for QString (having no locale specific functionality in QString), and this worked out rather nicely. So I would encourage you to have a look whether and how a similar design could be done for calendar system support.

Cheers,
Lars

On 02/01/17 12:01, "Frédéric Marchal" <frederic.marchal at wowtechnology.com> wrote:

    On Monday 02 January 2017 09:21:25 Lars Knoll wrote:
    > I wonder whether we can't keep handling of different calendars completely
    > outside of QDate. Something similar to what we've done with
    > QString/QLocale. So QDate would continue unchanged and only support the
    > standard Gregorian calendar. In addition, we have a QCalendar class, that
    > can be constructed with a different calendar system, and can then return
    > 'localized' date strings, days, months and years for this calendar system.
    > 
    > Something like:
    > 
    > QDate date;
    > QCalendar c(QCalendar::Hebrew);
    > QString hebrewDateString = c.toString(date);
    > int hebrewYear = c.year(date);
    > 
    > Maybe one could even integrate this into QLocale, that already provides
    > support for localized month and day names?
    
    There is more to it than converting a date to a string:
    
    * Add N days to a date.
    * Find the number of days in a month.
    * Compare two dates.
    * Count the number of days between two dates.
    
    For instance a program wishing a happy new year to its users should do it with 
    as little modifications as possible.
    
    Using a plain QDate would have been the easiest way to reach more users 
    because it doesn't require to replace lots of QDate with a new, very similar, 
    class. As it is not possible to change QDate for now, Soroush is looking for a 
    temporary solution that would bridge the gap until Qt6 is out.
    
    BTW, happy new year to those using the Gregorian calendar :-)
    
    Frederic
    
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