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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-70823

QDateTime::fromString generating invalid data with DST days

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    • ced34cb3d5805f1fbaf3b275714a1a5f3585900c (qt/qtbase/5.11)

    Description

      When creating a QDateTime object using ::fromString if the date is in the daylight saving time change the object may not be valid (as isValid() sees or toString() fails).

      To better understand I made a small example also attached (x.cpp).

      #include <iostream>
      #include <QtCore/QDateTime>
      
      int main (int ac, char **av) {
          QString tmp("2008.10.19");
          QDateTime ts = QDateTime::fromString(tmp, "yyyy.MM.dd");
          std::cout << "Date: " << ts.toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh.mm").toStdString() << std::endl;
          std::cout << "From epoch (ms): " << ts.toMSecsSinceEpoch() << std::endl;
          std::cout << "Valid: " << ts.isValid() << std::endl;
      }
      

      If this code is called with a TZ='Brazil/East' it will output:

      $ TZ='Brazil/East' ./x
      Date: 
      From epoch (ms): 1224385200000
      Valid: 0
      

      If called with a TZ='GMT' it will output:

      $ TZ='GMT' ./x
      Date: 19.10.2008 00.00
      From epoch (ms): 1224374400000
      Valid: 1
      

      I don't know if this is expected behavior for this code, but it seems the QDateTime should generate a valid object since it didn't receive time values, only date (yyyy.MM.dd), also on both timezones the ms from epoch seems right.}}

      I tested this on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Qt 5.9.5) and Gentoo (Qt 5.9.6).

      Thanks!

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        1. CMakeLists.txt
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        2. x.cpp
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