The `time` package equivalent of `MyDate` would be `Day`:

storeDate :: Day
storeDate = fromGregorian 2021 6 29

> storeDate
2021-06-29
> toGregorian storeDate
(2021,6,29)
> dayOfWeek storeDate
Tuesday

However, I don't see any easy conversion between the numeric month and its English name.


On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:58 PM Galaxy Being <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
I've looked at Data.Time, but I'm not seeing examples. I'd like to figure out how to simply have use of similar to this:

type MyMonth = String
type MyDay = String
type MyYear = String
data MyDate = MyDate MyMonth MyDay MyYear deriving Show

storeDate :: MyDate
storeDate = "June" "29" "2021"

which will be in a bigger data structure I'm building. I can't believe this isn't reinventing some long-established wheel. Is there such a type ready to use?

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Lawrence Bottorff
Grand Marais, MN, USA
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