I wrote:
It may be a bit late, but in my opinion you might consider changing the package name for future versions.
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
It really means "stuff that ought to be in time, but can't be due to language compatibility reasons". The time-extras package should probably be in the Haskell Platform, and it may eventually get merged into the time package.
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Data instances are not just there for syb... I think they should be derived wherever possible. Using them is a different matter; I think they should be used sparingly. But when you need them, they are very useful.
OK, thanks Ashley and Lennart for the explanations. Still - something more descriptive of the content, like time-generic or time-reflection or time-data-instances, might have been more informative. Hackage is quickly becoming an unnavigable tangled jungle. Thanks, Yitz