[Qt-interest] QTimeSpan: interest?

[Andre Somers]

Hi,

Quite a while ago on this list, a question on how to substract two dates 
in order to get a length of time inspired the creation of a class called 
QTimeSpan. It can be used to represent a period of time, where QDate, 
QTime and QDateTime only represent a single point in time. Now, the 
class is basically finished, and we've submitted it for inclusion in Qt.

On the merge request (http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests/1014) 
a question was asked why this class would belong in Qt. Personally, I 
think it would fit nicely, but I am not the only user of Qt of course. 
That's where you come in. I think it would be beneficial if the 
associated Jira ticket 
(http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-16556) would get some 
votes, to underline that more users than just the authors of this class 
think it would be useful to have.

If you'd like to have more information on the capabilities and design of 
the class before voting for its inclusion, please refer to the 
documentation that is available in the .cpp file in the merge request. I 
think it gives a nice overview of what's possible. Of course, I'd be 
willing to answer questions here too, and I would be interested in 
suggestions for further improvement. Note that the comments made in the 
merge request have already been fixed, but not committed yet.

André