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-rw-r--r--src/qml/doc/src/cppintegration/data.qdoc2
-rw-r--r--src/qml/doc/src/qmltypereference.qdoc19
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/qml/doc/src/cppintegration/data.qdoc b/src/qml/doc/src/cppintegration/data.qdoc
index 6159ffe20b..8ebbd28737 100644
--- a/src/qml/doc/src/cppintegration/data.qdoc
+++ b/src/qml/doc/src/cppintegration/data.qdoc
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ when passed from C++ to QML and vice-versa:
\li QFont
\li \l font
\row
- \li QDate
+ \li QDateTime
\li \l date
\row
\li QPoint, QPointF
diff --git a/src/qml/doc/src/qmltypereference.qdoc b/src/qml/doc/src/qmltypereference.qdoc
index 79bfdc7042..ae36ebbcc9 100644
--- a/src/qml/doc/src/qmltypereference.qdoc
+++ b/src/qml/doc/src/qmltypereference.qdoc
@@ -91,10 +91,17 @@ provided:
The \c date type refers to a date value, including the time of the day.
-To create a \c date value, specify it as a "YYYY-MM-DD" string:
+To create a \c date value, specify it as a "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.zzzZ" string.
+(The T is literal, YYYY is a full year number, MM and DD are month and day
+numbers, hh, mm and ss are hours, minutes and seconds, with .zzz as
+milliseconds and Z as time-zone offset. The T and following time are optional.
+If they are omitted, the date is handled as the start of UTC's day, which
+falls on other dates in some time-zones. When T is included, the :ss.zzz or
+just .zzz part can be omitted. With or without those, the zone offset can be
+omitted, in which case local time is used.) For example:
\qml
-MyDatePicker { minDate: "2000-01-01"; maxDate: "2020-12-31" }
+MyDatePicker { minDate: "2000-01-01 0:0"; maxDate: "2020-12-31 23:59" }
\endqml
To read a date value returned from a C++ extension class, use
@@ -102,7 +109,13 @@ To read a date value returned from a C++ extension class, use
When integrating with C++, note that any QDate or QDateTime value
\l{qtqml-cppintegration-data.html}{passed into QML from C++} is automatically
-converted into a \c date value, and vice-versa.
+converted into a \c date value, and vice-versa. Note, however, that
+converting a QDate will result in UTC's start of the day, which falls on
+a different date in some other time-zones. It is usually more robust
+to convert the QDate via a QDateTime explicitly, specifying local-time
+or a relevant time-zone and selecting a time of day (such as noon)
+that reliably exists (daylight-savings transitions skip an hour, near
+one end or the other of a day).
This basic type is provided by the QML language. It can be implicitly converted
to a \l{QtQml::Date}{Date} object.