Nice, thanks I will pick it up now. I think we use 19:25 times here in Finland. Qt might have a bug on that? edit: Didnt work yet but I can use my old alarms just fine. It seems that we the Finns are using the point as a separator in times. So not a qt bug. But I do think you should propably have a method "char getTimeSeparatorMarker(locale)" in a localization avare library like QT? I dont know the internals yet, so just throwing a thought. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piste_%...%A4limerkki%29 "Ajanilmauksissa tunnit, minuutit ja sekunnit erotetaan toisistaan pisteellä, esimerkiksi kello 14.15." from the wiki page says so in Finnish.