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Re: [Cbor] Encoding Arbitrary Time Ratios

Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Mon, 05 April 2021 23:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Encoding Arbitrary Time Ratios
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On Monday, 5 April 2021 16:39:28 PDT Emile Cormier wrote:
> Perhaps a key could be added in tag 1002 to indicate that the duration
> represents a time of day?

My motivation here is to represent the QTime class, which is a component of 
QDateTime, but not a very important motivation for me. We've been asked more 
than once to extend it to allow any duration, not just intra-day.

I'm happy with transferring QDateTime and QDate over a network.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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