Shameless plug: I wrote a library called `CompareChain` that allows you to use operators like `<` and `>` on structs like `DateTime`.
Hexdocs: https://hexdocs.pm/compare_chain/readme.html On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 10:54:08 AM UTC-5 Jay Rogov wrote: > Because the underlying structure used to represent DateTime is a struct, > which is simply a map under the hood. > Erlang/Elixir uses a rather arbitrary order of keys (e.g. hour -> year -> > day -> minute) when comparing 2 maps which you can't control. > > Thus, you need to have a specific function that would compare these > structs according to implied field order (year -> month -> day -> hour -> > etc.) > > More: > https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/NaiveDateTime.html#module-comparing-naive-date-times > > On Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 4:38:00 pm UTC+1 cbw...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Can't you compare DateTime with '>' or '<' instead of DateTime.compare? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/990272f2-fee1-454c-a1b1-58a801089344n%40googlegroups.com.
