wysota, now you criticize your own comment,
first you say "write fucntion that does that"
and after "fellow programmers don't feel a need for such functions"

anyway, What i am trying right now is to reimplement QLocale::dateFormat and QLocale::dateTimeFormat and to call QLocale::setDefault(myLocale)
since those are not virtual methods and i am getting strange compilation errors as soon as i include derived class files, is this what i am doing even possible?