On Saturday, July 2, 2011, Joe Healy <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the points I found "non obvious" were the fact that local time is > just that. There is no knowledge of the actual timezone in the data > type. If you wish to store that, it needs to be stored alongside.
Isn't that what ZonedTime [1] is for? [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/time/1.1.4/doc/html/Data-Time-LocalTime.html Erik > I've attached my test program in the hope that it will be useful for > someone (or if it is bad, get some help). Is there somewhere/way to > contribute some examples or documentation? I feel the time home page > (http://semantic.org/TimeLib/) makes the library feel more experimental > than it really is. > > Cheers, > > Joe > > > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 07:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:15:28 +0300 >> Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > The biggest shortcoming, in my opinion, is that the documentation >> > assumes that the reader is very familiar with the Haskell type >> > system, and with viewing type signatures and instance lists as an >> > integral and central part of the documentation. >> > >> > In particular, Haskell's standard numeric type classes and the >> > conversion functions between them play a central role in the API >> > of Data.Time. But you wouldn't realize that unless you have read >> > the type signatures and instance lists in the Haddocks very >> > carefully, and have thought about it for a while. >> >> This is exactly right. >> >> > >> > Another problem, as Malcolm pointed out, is that because of the >> > sheer size of the library, a quick-start guide for the common >> > cases would be extremely helpful for newcomers. >> >> That would be very, very helpful. I had a few working examples things were >> much better. Finding a starting place, any starting place, proved to be >> quite elusive. Also the fact that asking for the current time traps you in >> IO hell, doesn't help, although it's clear that it should be that way. >> >> Brian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
