Myrddin: Types

Summary: Types

The types provided here are used throughout libdate.

pkg date = 
        type instant = struct
                actual  : std.time  /* epoch time in microseconds */
                tzoff   : duration  /* timezone offset in microseconds */
                year    : int   /* year, != 0 */
                mon : int   /* month, [1..12] */
                day : int   /* day, [1..31] */
                wday    : int   /* weekday, [0..6] */
                h   : int   /* hour: [0..23] */
                m   : int   /* minute: [0..59] */
                s   : int   /* second: [0..59] */
                us  : int   /* microsecond: [0..999,999] */
                tzname  : byte[:]   /* current time zone name */
        ;;

        type duration = std.time

        type period = union
    `Year   int
    `Month  int
    `Day    int
    `Hour   int
    `Minute int
    `Second int
;;
;;

Descriptions

type instant

Instant represents a single instant of time, with a resolution of microseconds. It contains the actual instant in the member actual, which is a timestamp in microseconds since Jan 1, 1970 at 00:00 in UTC, and breaks out the "humanized" time out into the various members that are exposed.

The instant type always has a timezone attached, and the humanized time components are always in that timezone.

type duration

A duration is an absolute number of microseconds that can be added or subtracted from an instant. This is not timezone adjusted.

type period

A period is a time delta that is adjusted for crossing timezones, daylight savings, and other similar events. If you add a day to an instant, you would get the same wallclock time the next day, should that wallclock time exist.

For example, if I were to add `Day 2 to the instant Oct 31 2015 3:00, then the result would be the date Nov 2 2015 3:00, regardless of the daylight savings time adjustment. However, adding `Hour 48 would not have that effect.

In cases where the adjustment does not exist -- for example, leap years, then the time will "wrap around" to the next available day. For example, Feb 29th on a leap year will become Mar 1st.