Time library design proposal

[Ketil Malde]

Ketil Malde <ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no> writes:

>   easter :: Year -> Day
>   easter yr = first (filter isSunday (daysFrom (springEquinox yr)))

Thanks to everybody who pointed out that we also need to incorporate
isFullMoon or similar in the equation.  

This omission was, as many of you guessed, of course intentional, and
shows in a nice way how one in such a scheme can fix all Easter date
mistakes in one's programs in one fell swoop.  Try *that* with
picoseconds! 

:-)

-kzm
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