[Qt5-feedback] Historical QTBUG-277

[John Layt]

On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 20:09:36 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> While I understand, that QWidgets are getting the lower echelons, I feel
> like asking about tackling one major show stopper in certain Qt scenarios:
> 
> 	http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-277
> 
> It's about QDateEdit, QTimeEdit and QDateTimeEdit allowing to keep invalid
> dates, times and datetimes invalid (with databases, a NULL value of such a
> field usually has a special meaning (think "death-day" of still living
> people). Current behavior since Qt3 is: if the user just tabs over such a
> field, the widgets force a valid date/time value: leading to 2000-01-01
> 00:00:00 for a QDateTimeEdit. Needless to say, that this behavior isn't
> desired almost all the time.

Hi Pete,

QDateTime and its widgets are one of the subjects that the KDE community are 
very interested in.  We have our own KDateTime class which supports time zones 
and various edit widgets including ones that will accept invalid dates.  We'd 
like to simplify this by adding as much of this functionality into Qt as 
possible.  I'll be posting something to the list soon-ish, and discussing it 
at QtCS next week.  Due to the "mostly source compatible" policy for Qt5 I'm 
not sure there will be a clean way to adapt QDateTimeEdit but I'll look into 
it, otherwise we may need to add a new widget.

Cheers!

John.