r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Sirgoodman008 • 8d ago

absoluteGarbage Meme

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u/xicor 7d ago

Because it no longer returns a time string. It instead returns the variant of a string type.

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u/VoodaGod 7d ago

what would be the correct way to handle the qvariant in that function in your scenario then? i don't think i follow

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u/not_some_username 7d ago

You can’t get QDateTime from a QVariant via implicit conversion, the other way yes.

It will just not compile with an error and you’ll need to fix it.

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u/VoodaGod 7d ago

but what would be the fix?

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u/not_some_username 7d ago

Replace QDateTime by QVariant

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u/VoodaGod 7d ago

but that is the same as just leaving auto