[Libreoffice] Class Time and its funny ideas about time

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 11 of August 2011, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  As much as I don't like it, I can possibly see at least some reason for
> > time having 25 hours, but 10 seconds without 20 seconds being 10 seconds
> > (and there is actually explicit code to ensure that)?
> >
> >  Does somebody know why the Time class does either of these and how much
> > would break if I fixed these two to be sane?
>
> Reasons for that buried in the past I guess, and maybe not too
> useful to try to answer - for the second question, GetHour() should
> be easy to grep for, and operator- has at least client code in
> editeng/source/misc/svxacorr.cxx, sfx2/source/doc/objcont.cxx, and
> automation/source/server/statemnt.cxx
>
> It's unclear to me, how valuable it is to fix-up tools/time.hxx &
> all client code, vs. to use e.g.
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/chrono.html when you
> need a sane implementation in new code ...

 Makes sense, except that none of the Boost classes listed there is a suitable 
replacement for wall clock time (time_point does not seem to have any 
minutes(), or I'm again confused by Boost's posh APIs).

> At the very least, documenting your findings in tools.hxx of course
> would be great.

 Will do.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz