From kde-core-devel  Mon Dec 05 13:51:34 2005
From: Tobias Koenig <tokoe () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:51:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposed new KDateTime class
Message-Id: <20051205135133.GA6089 () ghostdog ! localnet>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=113379075706153

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:50:04AM +0000, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 00:41, Tobias Koenig wrote:
Hi David,

> > We can use enums for the subclasses. Isn't there a limited number of
> > possible timezones anyway?
> 
> The problem is that anybody could subclass KTimezone. There will be a subclass 
> for iCalendar time zones (already committed in libkcal), but there could be 
> subclasses for any new type of time zone source, if it turned out that some 
> application needed to access it.
Do we really need this flexibility? Which functionality of KTimezone must be
variable exactly? Reading/transforming the timezone information?
Couldn't this be done by an external helper class?

We really need the functionality of serializing objects in KDE PIM 4.0!

Ciao,
Tobias
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