The Examples

elm-time Examples

This README covers knowledge conveyed in these two examples and how to set up your system to build and run them.

Feature Highlights

For elm-time

• How to use Elm flags to retrieve an initial time from Javacript.
• The differences working with utc-only and time zones.

For Elm in General

• The (!) function, a syntactic shortcut, is used to format the return of the init function. Defined here. Discussion here.

Installation

Prerequisites

Name	Version	Installation
elm	>= 0.18.0	Install
node	v8.9.3	node dist
npm	5.5.1	Included as part of node install above
elm-live	>= v2.7.5	npm install -g elm-live
uglify-js	>= 3.3.4	npm install -g uglify-js

Install and Run

1. cd into your Elm projects' folder
2. Perform the following commands:

   git clone git@github.com:elm-community/elm-time.git
   cd elm-time
   elm-make
   cd examples/with-timezone   # or examples/without-timezone
   make                        # May take a minute or two if uglifying for the first time
   elm-live --output=index.min.js Main.elm --open

3. Observe the following browser screen for with-timezone example:
4. Observe the following browser screen for without-timezone example: