How do I get the current time in Elm?

Question

I\'m running elm-repl to play around with the language.

I\'d like to see what the current time is. How would I do that? It doesn\'t appear to be possible with the c

Answer 1

You can use the Time package and/or the Date package.

Here's a contrived example which uses both:

import Signal
import Time exposing (every, second)
import Date exposing (year, hour, minute, second, fromTime)
import Graphics.Element exposing (show)

main =
  Signal.map currentTime (Time.every Time.second)

currentTime t =
  let date' = fromTime t
      hour' = toString (Date.hour date')
      minute' = toString (Date.minute date')
      second' = toString (Date.second date')
      year' = toString (year date')
      now = "The current time is: " ++ hour' ++ ":" ++ minute' ++ ":" ++ second'
  in 
      show now