[Qt-interest] How calculate time span (days, hours, minutes) QDateTime difference?

[Ed Sutton]

Hi Sean,

>> 
>> 
>> QDateTime::secsTo() does the trick with some additional work.
>> 
>> I was hoping I had missed the Qt equivalent of the .NET TimeSpan structure.
>> 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.aspx
> 
> >Yes I have been thinking about adding something like this for a while now. 
> Maybe I will try to put a merge request together on gitorious for such a 
> class.

I think a TimeSpan class would be widely appreciated and used!

> 
> >Does anybody have any other features that they would like for such a class?

Personally I would model it after the .NET TimeSpan structure as much as possible.  I think it is intuitive and cannot imagine how it can be improved substantially.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.aspx 

Thank you for your time,

-Ed