F# Date Type Provider which provides strong type checking for dates.
After watching this video from Scott Meyers where he showed an example of a strongly typed datetime class I thought this is a good fit for an F# Type Provider.
open DateProvider // dates can be represented with month digits Date.``2004``.``02``.``29``.ToDateTime() // or with month names Date.``2004``.February.``29``.ToDateTime() // does not compile Date.``2002``.``13``.``10``.ToDateTime() Date.``2002``.``02``.``29``.ToDateTime() // you can also return a DateTimeOffset Date.``2002``.``13``.``10``.ToDateTimeOffset() // you can also provide a century parameter type C21 = Date<century = Century.``21``> // returns years from 2001 to 2100 printfn "%A" <| C21.``2012``.November.``01``.ToDateTime() type C18 = Date<century = Century.``18``> // returns years from 1701 to 1800 printfn "%A" <| C18.``1789``.July.``14``.ToDateTime() // you can force a century even if it is not defined in the enum let [<Literal>] c80: Century = enum 80 type C80 = Date<century = c80> printfn "%A" <| C80.``7908``.July.``14``.ToDateTime() // providing a Century value which is not in the valid range (1 to 99) the provider falls back to the current century let [<Literal>] c100: Century = enum 100 type C100 = Date<century = c100> printfn "%A" <| C100.``2004``.July.``14``.ToDateTime()The Type Provider returns a Date record with the Fields Year, Month and Day. You can call the methods ToDateTime() and ToDateTimeOffset(?offset) to return a DateTime or a DateTimeOffset.
Likewise you can write your own extension method to return a NodaTime LocalDate.
open NodaTime type FSharp.DateTypeProvider.Date with member self.ToLocalDate() = LocalDate(self.Year, self.Month, self.Day) printfn "%A" <| Date.``2013``.February.``01``.ToLocalDate()