Quartz.NET and F# - SystemTime and KeyMatcher

Question

I am trying to work with Quartz.NET in F# and have run into a few issues with the fact that, while Quartz.NET is usable in F#, there does not seem to be much documentation on it, and I've had some difficulty with differences between it and what can find in C#.

One issue I have currently run into is setting SystemTime such as shown in this question, Quartz.net + testing with SystemTime.UtcNow.

I could be wrong, but I thought that the code in F# should be:

SystemTime.Now = fun () -> DateTime(someDate)
SystemTime.UtcNow = fun () -> DateTime(someDate)

But I get an error about either too many arguments or function used where not expected. If I just use the DateTime constructor, I get an error related to the fact it is expecting a function.

Answer 1

The single = is an equality comparison operation. If you want to do assignment, use the <- assignment operator.

Apart from that, F# functions aren't the same as Func<T>. Normally, when you use them as method arguments, the conversion happens automatically, but in this case, it seems you'll need to explicitly perform the conversion:

open System
open Quartz

SystemTime.Now <- 
    Func<DateTimeOffset>(
        fun () -> DateTimeOffset(DateTime(2015, 4, 18), TimeSpan.FromHours 2.))
SystemTime.UtcNow <- 
    Func<DateTimeOffset>(
        fun () -> DateTimeOffset(DateTime(2015, 4, 18), TimeSpan.FromHours 2.))

To invoke them from F# is also a bit more involved:

> SystemTime.Now.Invoke();;
val it : DateTimeOffset = 18.04.2015 00:00:00 +02:00
> SystemTime.UtcNow.Invoke();;
val it : DateTimeOffset = 18.04.2015 00:00:00 +02:00