3 Aug 2012 05:15
ANNOUNCE: time-recurrence-0.9.0
Chris Heller <hellertime <at> gmail.com>
2012-08-03 03:15:58 GMT
2012-08-03 03:15:58 GMT
I am happy to announce a new version of time-recurrence, a library of
functions for generating recurring sequences of dates:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/time-recurrence
New in version 0.9.0 is a redesigned top layer API. Previously
recurrences were described by combining generating functions to get
the desired effect.
This was quite functional but had the drawback that a recurrence was
difficult to persist outside of the Haskell run-time. As of version
0.9.0 this limitation is no more. Now the actual recurrence rule is
defined by combining types into a data structure which can either be
persisted (and later read back) or evaluated into a function to
generate dates. This also means that the type system now enforces
correct rule creation!
Additionally some convenience functions are available to construct the
recurrence rule in a format familiar to previous users of this
library.
Here is a familiar example:
Generate the 15th and 30th of the month, but only during the work week:
> jan2011 = ptime "Sat, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400"
> jan2012 = ptime "Sun, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0400"
> takeWhile (<= jan2013) $ starting jan2012 $
> recur monthly
> >==> enum (Days [15,30])
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