Proposal: Use time rather than old-time in directory

[Vincent Hanquez]

On 10/23/2011 05:11 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This proposal is to change directory to use the time package rather than
>> the old-time package. This will hopefully be a significant step towards
>> actually making the transition in general.
>>
>> I'm not sure if POSIXTime or UTCTime is the better type to use. Does
>> anyone know?
>>
>> I started off with UTCTime, then switched to POSIXTime as UTCTime didn't
>> have a Show instance. I've since found that actually UTCTime has both
>> Show and Read instances, but they are orphaned. So actually, if UTCTime
>> is the better type then switching back to UTCTime would allow us to fix
>> this comment in hpc:
>> -- We would rather use ClockTime in Mix, but ClockTime has no Read instance
>> and simplify the code slightly.
>>
>>
>> Attached are patches for directory, hpc and ghc.
>>
>>
>> Suggested discussion period: Until 5th Nov 2011.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ian
> +1. I'd like to transition to a single package as much as possible,
> and I think UTCTime is the right data type.
+1 to transition to a single package.
> Perhaps this belongs in a separate discussion, but is there any plan
> to have time provide the locale stuff directly instead of our code
> needing to depend on old-locale? If I'm not mistaken, implementing
> such a strategy at the same time would mean that user code could then
> ignore two old-* packages.
I agree, this is quite confusing to have to get things from a "old-" package in 
the time package and even more that there's no "new" package for old-locale.

-- 
Vincent