[Qt-interest] New Date and Time Features in Qt5?

Eckhard Jokisch e.jokisch at orange-moon.de
Fri May 13 20:41:26 CEST 2011


On Friday 13 May 2011 18:34:36 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 13 de May de 2011 07:41:10 Jason H wrote:
> > I've been complaining about the lack of timezone support for ages now. We
> > live  in a world with 24 time zones, and the majority of them don't use
> > your time zone. I've been working on workflow apps where you manually
> > have to convert it to UTC on the server, then convert back on the
> > client.
> 
> Actually, it's 25 time zones, even if you don't count the half-hour and
> quarter-hour ones. :-)
> 
> New Zealand in Summer is at GMT+13.
That depends in which area you oput the #define SUMMER ;)
I had a lovely summer during last December and January ...

And note that i.e. this year NZ switched to normal time one week after Europe 
switched to daylight-time. So there was one week with a third variation.



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