[Qt-interest] QDateTime daylight saving parsing time offset

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 30 de March de 2011 16:21:16 Paul Drummond wrote:
> Thanks the detailed response Konrad - that clears it up for me.
> 
> Every time I come across a date/time issue like this I feel like I
> have to take a day out to RTFM.  I've read all the links mentioned
> here (and more) various times before but it all leaves my head as soon
> as I've finished the work.  What's worse is the seemingly universal
> assumption that date/time stuff is easy which is why I was given half
> an hour to solve this problem this morning and no time to figure it
> out properly!!

I don't see why you'd spend the entire day to figure out what that +0100 
means...

If you see:
	09:00 +0100

It means either 08:00 UTC or 10:00 UTC. The date command can help:

$ date -u -d '09:00 +0100'
Wed Mar 30 08:00:00 UTC 2011


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