System.Locale.Read

Read locales on unix systems and parse them into their corresponding TimeLocale representation.

Documentation

getLocale :: Maybe String -> IO TimeLocale

Read a locale with LC_TIME set according to the first argument.

Throws a LocaleParseException if the output of calling locale cannot be parsed.

The knownTimeZones field will always be empty.

getLocale (Just "en_US.UTF-8")

getCurrentLocale :: IO TimeLocale

Get the current locale of the process.

Throws a LocaleParseException if the output of calling locale cannot be parsed.

The knownTimeZones field will always be empty.

parseLocale :: Parser TimeLocale

Parser for locales returned by the unix utility locale

data TimeLocale :: *

Constructors

TimeLocale

Fields

• wDays :: [(String, String)]

  full and abbreviated week days, starting with Sunday

• months :: [(String, String)]

  full and abbreviated months

• amPm :: (String, String)

  AM/PM symbols

• dateTimeFmt :: String

  formatting strings

• dateFmt :: String

  formatting strings

• timeFmt :: String

  formatting strings

• time12Fmt :: String

  formatting strings

• knownTimeZones :: [TimeZone]

  time zones known by name

Instances

Eq TimeLocale

Methods

(==) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

(/=) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

Ord TimeLocale

Methods

compare :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Ordering

(<) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

(<=) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

(>) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

(>=) :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> Bool

max :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> TimeLocale

min :: TimeLocale -> TimeLocale -> TimeLocale

Show TimeLocale

Methods

showsPrec :: Int -> TimeLocale -> ShowS

show :: TimeLocale -> String

showList :: [TimeLocale] -> ShowS

data LocaleParseException

Thrown when the locale cannot be parsed

Constructors

LocaleParseException String

Instances

Eq LocaleParseException

Methods

(==) :: LocaleParseException -> LocaleParseException -> Bool

(/=) :: LocaleParseException -> LocaleParseException -> Bool

Show LocaleParseException

Methods

showsPrec :: Int -> LocaleParseException -> ShowS

show :: LocaleParseException -> String

showList :: [LocaleParseException] -> ShowS

Exception LocaleParseException

Methods

toException :: LocaleParseException -> SomeException

fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe LocaleParseException

displayException :: LocaleParseException -> String