Calendar Types

[Aaron Denney]

On 2005-02-13, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> wrote:
> OK, so here are the basic functions of System.Time.Calendar:
>
>   utcToCalendar :: TimeZone -> UTCTime -> CalendarTime
>
>   calendarToUTC :: TimeZone -> CalendarTime -> UTCTime
...
> * Should we include a timezone field in CalendarTime?

This would change the signature of calendarToUTC, presumably?

I think it should be in CalendarTime, or rather, TimeOfDay, with
the broken-up representation.

> * Should the "year" field be an Integer instead of an Int? Assuming 
> Int=Int32, it gives us 2*10^9 BCE to 2*10^9 CE. The age of the universe 
> is about 13.7*10^9 years. The age of the earth is about 4.6*10^9 years.

I think so.  I think our best model of it should be unbounded.

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Aaron Denney
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