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author | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2018-01-18 13:48:26 +0100 |
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committer | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2018-02-07 12:21:00 +0000 |
commit | 6d3e5ac6d2f34a0da609f863bed95d3be571c589 (patch) | |
tree | f372cab569443cf05514cc4a6092cb0b6400e958 /src/corelib/plugin | |
parent | aec6fae60b4e229b7e00e534c47d341caf49cddc (diff) |
Prefer ICU over system info on MS-Win
The ICU data is more complete; and its APIs allow it to tell the whole
story, which MS-Win's APIs can't (e.g. Morocco's otherwise-normal DST
has a hole in it for Ramadan; when this makes four transitions in a
year, the MS-APIs can't report more than two, so ignore the Ramadan
gap); and their design obliges us to use heuristics to kludge round
mis-description of simple changes to standard time in non-DST zones,
which can't be distinguished from certain (more) obscure cases of
changes to DST coinciding with a change to standard offset (causing a
DST transition to hide, leaving its other end *looking like* a non-DST
change to standard offset). Using ICU, when available, reduces how
many end users shall be mislead by such kludges.
[ChangeLog][Windows][QTimeZone] Changed MS-Win to use ICU for
time-zone data, when available, in preference to MS's TZ APIs. The
choice is made when building Qt. This will give reliable results when
non-DST transitions arise, or when a zone's DST is not simple
(e.g. interrupted by Ramadan).
Task-number: QTBUG-42021
Change-Id: I9cdd65713ecdaf8cce52dd924fbc7371630977c8
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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