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

[Dan White]

On May 13, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 13 de May de 2011 16:46:37 Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>> Konrad:
>>> However, usually they are configured to ignore them
>>> and they use NTP to simply shift slowly using longer
>>> seconds when this happens.
>>
>>  Again, this ignores the idea that not all time
>>  information is locally-originated. Consider a
>>  system that is displaying externally-originated
>>  records that are time-stamped with values that
>>  *CAN* include leap seconds...
>
> Ok, we can add support for leap seconds.
>
> I'm pretty sure it will be a very good use of our time to write that  
> feature,
> the documentation and the unit that go with it.
>
> </irony>

Leap second stuff is readily available

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olson_database

http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm

http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/

It would be nice if the Qt classes could include the functionality.

I have worked with this stuff.
May I help ?
It would be easy to put in Unix/Linux/MacOS systems, but I do not know  
Windows enough to know how to integrate it.