[Qt5-feedback] Historical QTBUG-277

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See some discussion about this a few weeks ago on this mailing list:
http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt5-feedback/2011-May/000002.html

Glad to see it is bothering other people too!
Sam

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:17 AM, John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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