Simon Peyton-Jones (Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:06:40AM -0000): > > | the haskell 98 time library is horribly broken, if you are using ghc, > | you can deconstruct the time constructor which has an Integer > containing > | the number of seconds since epoch... otherwise you can use > | > ... > | I dont supose this could be considered a typo in the haskell 98 > report? > | it is an embarasing thing for a language to not be able to do... > > Meanwhile, I suspect there's an opportunity for someone (or a small > group) to suggest a new Time library that really does the business, and > provide an implementation. If it's sufficiently persuasive, all the > implementations will adopt it and it can become a de-facto standard.
A sound base for a Time implementation should use TAI (temps atomique international), c.f. <http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html>. > The implementation is important because Time is a weird enough thing > that only an expert can implement the spec! -- Stefan Karrmann _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
