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

[John Layt]

On Friday 13 May 2011 15:00:29 John Layt wrote:
> As part of that I would like to know what other Qt users are missing and
> would like to see supported.  The wider the community interest in adding
> new features the more likely they are to get them in.

Thanks for all the responses, even if it did get side-tracked a bit on leap 
seconds and nano-seconds.  Personally I'm not convinced such a level of 
accuracy is required for most Qt users, but I'll keep it in mind when making 
suggestions about ways Qt could allow QTime to be sub-classed to create your 
own specialised time classes.

Timezones is obviously a very popular feature, I believe Qt are working on 
this as a requirement for Qt Mobility so hopefully we get a good result there.

Date maths and date/time periods are also another popular request, with an 
existing merge request, and KDE also has date maths code we can look at.

I'm a little surprised no-one commented on the formatting options available in 
Qt, are people really happy with just YMD options?

Also any comments on alternative calendar systems (Islamic, Chinese, Japanese 
Era, etc)?  Does anyone get complaints from end users in the Middle East and 
Asia that their dates are not correctly localised to their Windows/OSX system 
settings?  If there's not much demand for this then I'll need a Plan B :-)

Thanks again.

John.