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

[Atlant Schmidt]

Thiago, et al.:

> Why do you need to know that?

  Perhaps only to report it to a human (who may care
  about such things, even if they're only wondering
  "Did my calendaring program properly account for
  Summer Time/Daylight Savings Time?" or "When I set
  the time and date in MyFancyApp(tm), did it account
  for DST?"

  Humans, being mistrustful of software/computers
  (and often, with pretty good reason) tend to be
  reassured by such information.

                         Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 02:54
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] New Date and Time Features in Qt5?

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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