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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 29 de May de 2011 16:04:43 David Ching wrote:
> Ideally, I would like to query the system for two things:  1) My timezone
> and 2) whether DST is active or not.  So I would get, e.g. UTC-8, DST=true.
> As it is, the only thing I can do is ask Qt is for current time as UTC and
> as Local and subtract one from the other, then I get UTC-7, which combines
> the effects of both timezone with the DST.  I do not know that my native
> timezone is UTC-8, and DST is in effect. 

Why do you need to know that?

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