Improve the Date API

[imeckler]

I think the Date API would really benefit from a function

ofYearMonthAndDay : { year : Int, month : Month, day : Int } -> Result String Date

since now the only ways of creating a date are from a string or a Time.
I'm not the best at naming things, so other name suggestions for this function would be much appreciated.

It's a bit (though not entirely) of a separate issue, but it seems a Date is actually a calendar date equipped with a time of day. Thus the above function should in an ideal world be

ofCalendarDateAndTime : { calendarDate : CalendarDate, time : TimeOfDay } -> Date

where CalendarDate is implemented by { year : Int, month : Month, day : Int} and TimeOfDay is implemented by Time.

[lukewestby]

@imeckler These would be well suited for inclusion here until such a time that they might be included in core 😃

[lukewestby]

@imeckler These would be well suited for inclusion here until such a time that they might be included in core 😃

[jvoigtlaender]

@lukewestby, the link you give (https://github.com/lukewestby/elm-date-extra) leads into nothingness. But I agree that given this policy it probably makes more sense to target another package with this feature request than core. Maybe https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra?

[jvoigtlaender]

@lukewestby, the link you give (https://github.com/lukewestby/elm-date-extra) leads into nothingness. But I agree that given this policy it probably makes more sense to target another package with this feature request than core. Maybe https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra?

[jvoigtlaender]

Or maybe https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra does already provide the sought functionality?

[jvoigtlaender]

Or maybe https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra does already provide the sought functionality?

[lukewestby]

Ah, sorry! I completely forgot to update this issue. Yes! Robin took over the effort on elm-date-extra, https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra is the "official" unofficial date extensions package. It does not currently provide the suggested functionality.

[lukewestby]

Ah, sorry! I completely forgot to update this issue. Yes! Robin took over the effort on elm-date-extra, https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra is the "official" unofficial date extensions package. It does not currently provide the suggested functionality.

[jvoigtlaender]

@imeckler, can this be closed here? Take it up in https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra?

[jvoigtlaender]

@imeckler, can this be closed here? Take it up in https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra?

[imeckler]

@jvoigtlaender Sounds good

[imeckler]

@jvoigtlaender Sounds good