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Date and time arithmetic

This is a WG2 proposal for date and time arithmetic, loosely based on Java's Joda Time functions. It's possible to implement SRFI 19 on top of it, but it provides much more flexibility.

Instants

For the purposes of this proposal, an instant is an exact integer representing a particular second of the TAI scale, such that 0 represents midnight on January 1, 1970 TAI (equivalent to ten seconds before midnight Universal Time) and the value 1 represents one TAI second later. The current instant can be obtained more or less accurately by evaluating (round (current-second)).

Chronologies

A chronology is a disjoint and immutable object that describes a particular calendar, such as the ISO, Gregorian, Julian, TAI, Jewish, Islamic, Persian, French Revolutionary, Maya, Chinese, Buddhist, Thai, Coptic, or Ethiopic calendar. Implementations MUST support the ISO chronology, and MAY support any of the other calendars mentioned here, or indeed any calendar not mentioned here. (The ISO chronology is similar to the Gregorian chronology, except that in Gregorian there are two eras and no year 0; in ISO there is only one era and the years 0, -1, -2, ... correspond to the Gregorian years 1, 2, 3 ... BC.)

Chronologies also incorporate the concept of time zone. An implementation MUST support the UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) time zone and any time zones expressible as a fixed offset in minutes from UTC. It SHOULD support the historical time zones of the tz database.

Chronology procedures

(default-chronology)

Returns the default implementation-dependent chronology, which may include time zone information.

(chronology name)

Return a chronology named by the symbol name. The ISO chronology is named iso. If provided, the Gregorian chronology is named gregorian, the Julian chronology is named julian, and the TAI calendar is named tai. The names of other chronologies are implementation-dependent. The chronologies returned by this procedure are in the UTC time zone.

(chronology-names)

Returns a list of the symbols naming the chronologies provided by the implementation. It is an error to modify this list.

(chronology-name chronology)

Returns the symbol that names chronology.

(chronology? obj)

Returns #t if obj is a chronology and #f otherwise.

(chronology-with-time-zone name chronology timezone)

Returns a chronology object named name based on chronology, but with the time zone specified by timezone. In the ISO and Gregorian chronologies, if timezone is an integer, it represents the number of minutes ahead of UTC, but if the implementation supports the tz database, and timezone is a string containing a time zone name defined by that database, it represents the time zone with that name. Otherwise, the interpretation of timezone is implementation-dependent. Chronologies created by this procedure are added to the list returned by future calls to chronology-names.

(chronology-time-zone chronology)

When chronology was returned from default-chronology, returns an implementation-dependent value. When chronology was returned from chronology, returns 0. When chronology was returned from chronology-with-time-zone, returns the time zone value (of whatever type) which was specified to that procedure.

(make-compound-chronology chronology1 chronology2 instant)

Returns a chronology that uses chronology2 at all times before instant, and chronology1 for all times including and following instant. This is useful for constructing chronologies that transition from Julian to Gregorian at a specified date.

Date objects

A date object is a member of an immutable disjoint type that specifies information about a date or time with respect to a certain chronology. For example, with respect to the ISO, Gregorian, or Julian chronologies, a date may represent a specific year, a specific week of a specific year, or an instant in time precise to a second. On the other hand, a date object may contain just a particular month. Date objects have multiple numeric-valued fields such as year or minute-of-day, whose meanings and possible values are determined by the chronology.

Date procedures

(make-date chronology alist)

Returns a date object using chronology. Alist is an association list that maps symbols which are field names meaningful to chronology to associated numeric values. An error is signaled if the field values are invalid or inconsistent.

(date? obj)

Returns #t if obj is a date object, and #f otherwise.

(date->alist date)

Returns a newly allocated alist containing the fields of date. Implementations SHOULD provide computed fields as well as explicitly set ones.

(date-field date fieldname)

Returns the numeric value of the field named fieldname (a symbol) within date, or #f if there is no such field. If the specified field was not provided when date was constructed, and it is possible to compute its value from the values of fields that were provided, the value is computed and returned.

(convert-date chronology date)

Equivalent to (make-date chronology (date->alist date)), but potentially much more efficient.

(date-update date fieldname value)

Returns a date object based on date, but with the field named fieldname updated to value. An error is signaled if the field is unknown or the value is out of range.

(date-increment date fieldname increment)

Returns a date object which is later than date by increment measured in the units specified by fieldname, or earlier if increment is negative. Returns #f if an appropriate date object cannot be constructed due to lack of information in date An error is signaled if fieldname is unknown.

For example, (date-increment date 'day-of-month 7) adds seven days to date (which is typically the same as one week, but may be different in some chronologies).

(date-chronology date)

Returns the chronology associated with date.

(date-field-maximum date fieldname)

(date-field-minimum date fieldname)

Returns the maximum or minimum legal value of the field named fieldname in the chronology associated with date. This value is not necessarily the same for all instants; for example, 28 is the maximum value of day-of-month if month has the value 2 (February). Returns #f if the value cannot be determined (there is no maximum or minimum year in the ISO chronology, for example).

(date-round date fieldname)

(date-ceiling date fieldname)

(date-floor date fieldname)

(date-truncate date fieldname)

Returns a date object which is the same as date, but adjusted to the nearest integral value of fieldname using the round, ceiling, floor, or truncate functions. This may cause other fields to change their values as well.

ISO date fields

Unless otherwise noted, the values of these fields MUST be either exact integers or #f if they were not explicitly set and cannot be calculated from the given information. These fields are specified for the ISO, Gregorian, and Julian chronologies, but they may be relevant to other chronologies as well. For interoperability, every chronology must support the instant field.

century
The absolute century of the date. In the ISO chronology, the century of 1965 C.E. is 19, the century of 70 C.E. is 0, and the century of 43 B.C.E is -1. In the Gregorian and Julian chronologies, they are 20, 1, and -1 respectively, and there is no century 0.
century-of-era
The century of the date's era.
clock-hour-of-day
The hour of the date's day in the range 1-24.
clock-hour-of-half-day
The hour of the date's half-day, in the range 1-12.
day-of-month
The day of the date's month, in the range 1-31 (or less in some months).
day-of-week
The day of the date's week. In the ISO chronology, Monday is day 1 and Sunday is day 7. In the Julian and Gregorian chronologies, Sunday is day 1 and Saturday is day 7.
day-of-year
The day of the date's year, in the range 1-365 in non-leap years and 1-366 in leap years.
daylight-saving-time
1 if daylight saving time (summer time) was in effect, or 0 if not. This field discriminates between 2:00 A.M. daylight time and 2:00 A.M. standard time on the day when daylight saving time ends in the U.S. (and the corresponding periods for other daylight saving time regimes).
era
The date's era. The ISO chronology has just one era. In the Gregorian and Julian chronologies, C.E. (or A.D.) = 1, and B.C.E. (or B.C.) = 0. By convention, the era containing instance 0 is era 1.
half-day-of-day
The half-day (A.M. or P.M.) of this day. A.M. = 0, P.M. = 1.
hour-of-day
The hour of the date's day, in the range 0-23.
hour-of-half-day
The hour of the date's half-day, in the range 0-11.
instant
The instant corresponding to this date.
local-time-offset
The local time zone offset (standard or daylight saving, as the case may be) in minutes ahead of UTC.
minute-of-day
The minute of the date's day, in the range 0-1439.
minute-of-hour
The minute of the date's hour, in the range 0-59.
month-of-year
The month of the date's year, in the range 1-12.
second-of-day
The second of the date's day, in the range 0-86399.
second-of-minute
The second of the date's minute, in the range 0-60 (for leap seconds).
standard-time-offset
The standard time zone offset in minutes ahead of UTC.
week-of-week-year
The week of the date's week-year, in the range 1-53.
week-year
The date's week-year, which in the ISO chronology begins on the week that has at least 4 days in the chronological year.
week-year-of-century
The week-year of the date's century. The range is the same as for year-of-century.
year
The absolute year of the date.
year-of-century
The year of the date's century. In the ISO chronology, the range is 0-99. In the Gregorian and Julian chronologies, the range is 1-100.
year-of-era
The year of the date's era. In the Gregorian and Julian chronologies, the value cannot be 0.