* André Somers <an...@familiesomers.nl> [2015-06-03 08:38:48 +0200]: > We have applications that use the current date and time at places spread > around the code. For normal operations, that works very nicely. However, > we find that for (auto) testing, it would be very convenient if we could > trick the application into believing it is some other date/time, so that > we can test if certain behaviours work the way we would like to > automatically. Currently, these tests take a lot of time because we > actually need to manually adjust the system date and time, do some > stuff, then adjust again, etc. > > It would be really confortable if there was some control to set a > date/time offset (so the time keeps running) or a fixed date/time to be > returned from currentDate(), currentTime() or currentDateTime() > respectively. I guess access to such a thing does not belong in the main > Qt classes, but is really a testing tool, so perhaps it could find > refuge in QtTest somewhere. Would a contribution adding such a thing > stand any chance of being accepted, or would this be considered out of > scope or even unwanted?
FWIW there's libfaketime[1] which might be some inspiration - but that's Linux/OS X only. [1] https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime Florian -- http://www.the-compiler.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
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