Re: Notes from GTK+ BOF

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:45 +0200, Owen Taylor wrote:
>   Date/Time. Seems useful, not clear if we have a close
>   enough prototype to get something in for 2.6. During
>   this discussion the ancient "Time API to go with date API"
>   bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50076) came
>   up. Apparently JP Rosevear has strong feeling about some
>   capabilities in this area that should be in GLib, so
>   he was encouraged in absentia to write this up for
>   gtk-devel-list.

The intention was definitely post 2.6.  The idea is that I think its
useful to have more rich date/time handling in glib for things like a
system wide timezone setting.  We're intending to clean up the icalendar
stuff as part of Evolution 2.2 and I'd eventually like to move the
date/time handling part of that down to glib once its robust and well
tested.  This would put this some time in the glib 2.8 or glib 2.10
timeframe at a guess, probably depends on how much people need it for
things other than evolution.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.