[Qt5-feedback] QDateTime in Qt5

[John Layt]

On Wednesday 15 Jun 2011 15:19:38 John Layt wrote:
> We might be covering some of this in the Localization session, but it has
> been suggested that a PIM session might be a good idea to allow the Qt
> Mobility and KDEPIM guys to meet and discuss common issues, especially
> Time Zones. If people are interested I can sort out a suitible slot.

Hi,

We did indeed have a QDateTime session at QtCS, and I've updated the wiki page 
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/groups/qt_contributors_summit/wiki/QDateTime 
with details from that, the localization sessions, and my own research. Please 
have a read through and comment.

The most popular topic was Time Zones with a general concensus that Qt5 really 
needs it.  A number of people offered to help research a solution and I'll be 
trying to push that forward on the KDE side.  Any coders are very welcome.  To 
give coders a consistent timezone naming conventions in the api the Unix tz 
standard names will probably be adopted with a platform conversion layer 
translating to/from the native system support.

I've indicated a number of the points on the wiki that I'll be personally 
working on, hopefully I can start submitting these patches soon :-)

Cheers!

John.