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Are these timezone conversions correct?

I use Qt 5.7.1 on Windows, 64 bits version. In my application, I manage some date time with different time zone.

I've recently seen some strange behaviour, and here is a simple code to test it :

QDateTime ParisDate(QDate(2016, 1, 20), QTime(2, 0, 0), QTimeZone("Europe/Paris"));
QDateTime PerthDate(QDate(2016, 1, 20), QTime(9, 0, 0), QTimeZone("Australia/Perth"));
QDateTime ParisConvertedToPerth = ParisDate.toTimeZone(QTimeZone("Australia/Perth"));

qDebug() << "                                ParisDate = " << ParisDate;
qDebug() << "                                PerthDate = " << PerthDate;
qDebug() << "                     delta Paris => Perth = " << ParisDate.secsTo(PerthDate) / 3600;
qDebug() << "     delta ParisConvertedToPerth => Perth = " << ParisConvertedToPerth.secsTo(PerthDate) / 3600;
qDebug() << "                         ParisDate to UTC = " << ParisDate.toUTC();
qDebug() << "                         PerthDate to UTC = " << PerthDate.toUTC();
qDebug() << "             ParisConvertedToPerth to UTC = " << ParisConvertedToPerth.toUTC();

This produce the following output :

                            ParisDate =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 02:00:00.000 Paris, Madrid Qt::TimeSpec(TimeZone) Europe/Paris)
                            PerthDate =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 09:00:00.000 Australie (Ouest) Qt::TimeSpec(TimeZone) Australia/Perth)
                delta  Paris => Perth =  8
delta  ParisConvertedToPerth => Perth =  0
                     ParisDate to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 01:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))
                     PerthDate to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 09:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))
         ParisConvertedToPerth to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 09:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))

I don't understand, because I thought that the 2 variables "ParisDate" and "PerthDate" should refer to the same point in time, exprimed with a different time zone.

So I believe the "delta Paris => Perth" should be 0 hours.

I can't believe the Qt5 code is broken, so what did I miss here ?

Solution

  • This is a bug in Qt that has already been fixed, but the fix is not published. It seems like you will have to wait for Qt 5.9 or Qt 5.6.3.

    Using Qt dev branch I have this output:

                                ParisDate =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 02:00:00.000 Paris, Madrid Qt::TimeSpec(TimeZone) Europe/Paris)
                            PerthDate =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 09:00:00.000 Australie (Ouest) Qt::TimeSpec(TimeZone) Australia/Perth)
                 delta Paris => Perth =  0
 delta ParisConvertedToPerth => Perth =  0
                     ParisDate to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 01:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))
                     PerthDate to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 01:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))
         ParisConvertedToPerth to UTC =  QDateTime(2016-01-20 01:00:00.000 UTC Qt::TimeSpec(UTC))