Quarter

A quarter of a calendar year, written 2026-Q4: quarter from 1 to 4.

Time and calendar; ordered; since Jadpo 0.1.0.

Make one

Build one from its fields, Quarter { year: ... quarter: ... }.

text.parse(raw, as: Quarter) reads one from its text; text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as 2026-Q5, 2026-Q0 or 2026Q1.

Fields

Text, JSON and storage

text.from writes its canonical text, the one form text.parse reads back. JSON sends its canonical text as a string.

It is stored in 2 columns, each named for the field, _ and its suffix. This is 2026-Q4:

Shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Operations

It has the contract's own operations: text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. It is ordered, so < and sorting take it. Every standard type meets one contract says how they work.