Posted on: 15/07/2018

For example the function formatTime :: FormatTime t => TimeLocale -> String -> t -> String from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/thyme-0.3.5.5/docs/Data-Thyme-Format.html has a Timelocale paremeter.

However what exactly is it? I assumed it’s the format of the date - YYYY-MM-DD or DD/MM/YY etc, however this seems to be the handled by the String parameter with a string like %d/%m/%Y %H:%M.

The value is defined here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/time-1.9.1/docs/Data-Time-Format.html#t:TimeLocale