"Simon Peyton-Jones"
I understand there's some history here, of which I'm not properly aware, so if this is merely rehashing old ground, please ignore.
As someone who got entangled in this last time it was discussed (and the time before that), I can inform you that it has indeed been discussed a bit, and that you could probably search the archives profitably for ideas and thoughts on the matter. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2002-January/008678.html and (same thread, but broken up, due to broken mail headers): http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-December/003742.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-December/003751.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-December/003758.html
Rather than try to fix it incrementally, I think it'd be most productive if the interested parties simply got together and agreed an interface for a new Time module, even if it's incompatible with the old one.
Yes, definitely. Useful time/data module is probably best designed by somebody who actually *have* use for it. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants