QDate also encodes time of day?

[A Former User]

I'm wondering if QDate actually stores the time of day
in addition to the date.
QDate appears to be just a container for a 64-bit value.
The QDate header file just points to qdatetime.h.
If it does encode date+time, and it was possibly formerly qdatetime, why does it not provide methods for accessing time of day?

[JonB]

@clarify
Why do you ask or care? It doesn't offer time of say because it's a date, not a datetime. There are QDate::startOfDay() and endOfDay() as the access point to a QDateTime, but nothing in-day.

[A Former User]

@JonB
I'm just a caring person, I suppose.
But I do kind of wonder why it's not implemented as a struct.
It's just a container of 1 value and some methods.
It's a class that doesn't descend from any other class.

[JonB]

@clarify
If your question is about struct versus class in C++, there is no effective difference between them (other than minor point about public visibility), classes do not have to inherit, so that is not an issue.

[A Former User]

@JonB
There is also the question of adjusting for things like leap minutes added at the end of a year.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/leap-seconds-could-become-leap-minutes-despite-pushback-from-russians-vatican/

[JonB]

@clarify
Sorry, don't see how that has anything to do with a QDate. A QDate is "defined" as a date with no time of day. If you want to deal with a datetime, use a QDateTime.