Time Libraries Rough Draft

[Ashley Yakeley]

In article 
<3429668D0E777A499EE74A7952C382D103238B8A at EUR-MSG-01.europe.corp.microso
ft.com>,
 "Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:

> > module System.Time.Clock ( ... ) where
> > 
> >   -- | standard Julian count of Earth days
> >   type JulianDay = Integer
> >
> >   newtype DiffTime = MkDiffTime Integer
> 
> Rather than exposing the constructor, I'd make it an abstract type with
> an instance of Integral.  You probably want the Integral instance
> anyway, so that you can use overloaded literals, and then there's not
> much use for the constructor.

Do you mean for DiffTime or for JulianDay?

"System.Time.TAI" is probably better.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA