[Interest] Getting the timezone from Qt?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 31/07/12 06:43, Lorn Potter wrote:
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> On 31/07/2012, at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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>> I wonder if it's possible to deduce the timezone from the system's UTC
>> offset?  The offset can be determined through gmtime() and localtime(),
>> both in C89 so nothing platform-specific here:
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> If it were that easy, we wouldn't need the extensive tz database. :)

Indeed.  That was quite a naive question, since several timezones most 
probably have the same offset, so you can't use the offset as an index 
into the tz database.