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KTimezones Class Reference

The KTimezones class models a timezone database. More...

#include <ktimezones.h>

List of all members.


Public Types

typedef QMap< QString,
KTimezone * > 
ZoneMap

Public Member Functions

void add (KTimezone *zone)
const ZoneMap allZones ()
 KTimezones ()
const KTimezone * local ()
const KTimezone * zone (const QString &name)
 ~KTimezones ()

Detailed Description

The KTimezones class models a timezone database.

It supports system timezones, and also has support for private timezone entries.

Since:
3.5
Author:
S.R.Haque <srhaque@iee.org>.

Definition at line 296 of file ktimezones.h.


Member Typedef Documentation

typedef QMap<QString, KTimezone *> KTimezones::ZoneMap

Definition at line 326 of file ktimezones.h.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

KTimezones::KTimezones (  ) 

Definition at line 328 of file ktimezones.cpp.

KTimezones::~KTimezones (  ) 

Definition at line 339 of file ktimezones.cpp.


Member Function Documentation

void KTimezones::add ( KTimezone *  zone  ) 

Add user-defined timezone to database.

Definition at line 355 of file ktimezones.cpp.

const KTimezones::ZoneMap KTimezones::allZones (  ) 

Return timezone database.

Returns:
known timezones.

Definition at line 360 of file ktimezones.cpp.

const KTimezone * KTimezones::local (  ) 

Returns the local timezone.

The idea of this routine is to provide a robust lookup of the local timezone.

The problem is that on Unix systems, there are a variety of mechanisms for setting this information, and no real way of getting it. For example, if you set your timezone to "Europe/London", then the tzname[] maintained by tzset() typically returns { "GMT", "BST" }. The point of this routine is to actually return "Europe/London" (or rather, the corresponding KTimezone).

Returns:
local timezone. If necessary, we will use a series of heuristics which end by returning UTC. We will never return NULL.

Definition at line 480 of file ktimezones.cpp.

const KTimezone * KTimezones::zone ( const QString &  name  ) 

Returns the given timezone.

Parameters:
name Name of timezone. Empty is equivalent to UTC.
Returns:
named timezone, NULL on error.

Definition at line 622 of file ktimezones.cpp.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
  • ktimezones.h
  • ktimezones.cpp

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