QDateTime: How to hold dates before 1-1-1970?

[JohnGa]

Hello,
The QDateTime is for dates after 1-1-1970 midnight. How can I hold dates before 1-1-1970? What if I want to represent a date from 1920? I don't need localization. I can't seem to find any suggestions/solutions for this...

Thanks.

[SGaist]

Hi,

What version of Qt are you using ?

 QDateTime dateTime(QDate(1900, 12, 12));
 qDebug() << dateTime;

returns QDateTime(1900-12-12 00:00:00.000 CET Qt::LocalTime) as expected.

[JonB]

@SGaist
It is only the ...SecsSinceEpoch() and the rules for DST which treat 1/1/1970 as "significant", is that right?

[JohnGa]

I misunderstood after reading lines like this in the documentation: "A datetime can also be set using the setMSecsSinceEpoch() function that takes the time, in milliseconds, since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970". I should have just tried instantiating a date like @SGaist did. Like @JonB said, the 1970 seems to apply only those functions he stated. Thanks for clarifying.