https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344673
David Jarvie changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|CONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |UNMAINTAINED
--- Comment #7 from David Jarvie ---
BUG DIAGNOSIS
The date/time becomes invalid when in KTimeZone::toZoneTime(), the following
line is executed (where 'dt' is a QDateTime instance):
dt.setTimeSpec(Qt::LocalTime)
Running the test with the system time zone set to Europe/London, 'dt' is set
invalid when before the call 'dt' is 1998-03-29 01:00:00.000 UTC. This is when
the Europe/London summer time change occurred, so that 1998-03-29 01:00:00.000
Europe/London is invalid.
Rather than simply setting a flag to indicate that the local time zone should
be used, QDateTime::setTimeSpec() evidently validates the resultant time
against the current system time zone, even though the time is intended to be
interpreted in a different time zone (America/New_York).
REQUIRED FIX
Fixing this bug would require significant changes to the KTimeZone and
KDateTime classes. Given that, presumably, they will become obsolete in KDE 6,
I don't think they are worth fixing.
RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVE TO KDateTime
The class KADateTime in pim/kalarmcal is an updated version of KDateTime which
uses Qt5 QDateTime time zone functionality instead of the much more limited Qt4
functionality used by KDateTime/KTimeZone. The issue does not exist in
KADateTime, so KADateTime could be used as a substitute for KDateTime.
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