[Qt-interest] QDateTime daylight saving parsing time offset

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 30 de March de 2011 13:52:14 Paul Drummond wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For a project I am working on I get a date time string in the following
> format:
> 
> Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:00:00 +0100
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken (which happens a lot with me when working with
> date/time conversions!) the above string is in UTC format. When
> converted to a QDateTime the time should be 10:00:00, right?  Or have
> I got that completely wrong?  I hate date/time hacking :-(

No, it would be 08:00.

Also note that QDateTime does not parse timezones. You must give it the UTC 
time or the local time.

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