diff --git a/System/Clock.hs b/System/Clock.hs
--- a/System/Clock.hs
+++ b/System/Clock.hs
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 import Foreign.Storable
 import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
 import Control.Applicative
+import Data.Typeable (Typeable)
+import GHC.Generics (Generic)
 
 -- | Clock types.
 --   A clock may be system-wide (that is, visible to all processes)
@@ -29,19 +31,12 @@
            | Realtime       -- ^ The identifier of the system-wide clock measuring real time. For this clock, the value returned by getTime represents the amount of time (in seconds and nanoseconds) since the Epoch.
            | ProcessCPUTime -- ^ The identifier of the CPU-time clock associated with the calling process. For this clock, the value returned by getTime represents the amount of execution time of the current process.
            | ThreadCPUTime  -- ^ The identifier of the CPU-time clock associated with the calling OS thread. For this clock, the value returned by getTime represents the amount of execution time of the current OS thread.
+           deriving (Eq, Enum, Generic, Read, Show, Typeable)
 
 -- | TimeSpec structure
-data TimeSpec = TimeSpec {-# UNPACK #-} !Int  -- seconds
-                         {-# UNPACK #-} !Int  -- nanoseconds
-                         deriving (Show, Read, Eq)
-
--- | Gets     seconds of a timespec value.
-sec  :: TimeSpec -> Int
--- | Gets nanoseconds of a timespec value.
-nsec :: TimeSpec -> Int
-
-sec  (TimeSpec s _) = s
-nsec (TimeSpec _ n) = n
+data TimeSpec = TimeSpec { sec  :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int, -- ^ seconds
+                           nsec :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int  -- ^ nanoseconds
+                         } deriving (Eq, Generic, Read, Show, Typeable)
 
 instance Storable TimeSpec where
   sizeOf    _ = sizeOf (0 :: Int) * 2
diff --git a/clock.cabal b/clock.cabal
--- a/clock.cabal
+++ b/clock.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:          clock
-version:       0.4.0.1
+version:       0.4.1.1
 stability:     stable
 synopsis:      High-resolution clock functions: monotonic, realtime, cputime.
 description:   A package for convenient access to high-resolution clock and
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@
                .
                OS X code was contributed by Gerolf Seitz on 2013-10-15.
                .
+               Derived @Generic@, @Typeable@ and other instances for @Clock@ and @TimeSpec@ was contributed by Mathieu Boespflug on 2014-09-17.
+               .
                [Version Scheme]
                Major-@/R/@-ewrite . New-@/F/@-unctionality . @/I/@-mprovementAndBugFixes . @/P/@-ackagingOnly
                .
                * @PackagingOnly@ changes are made for quality assurance reasons.
 
-copyright:     Copyright © Cetin Sert 2009-2013, Eugene Kirpichov 2010, Finn Espen Gundersen 2013, Gerolf Seitz 2013
+copyright:     Copyright © Cetin Sert 2009-2013, Eugene Kirpichov 2010, Finn Espen Gundersen 2013, Gerolf Seitz 2013, Mathieu Boespflug 2014
 license:       BSD3
 license-file:  LICENSE
 author:        Cetin Sert <cetin@corsis.eu>, Corsis Research
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@
 library
     build-depends:       base >= 2 && <= 5
     exposed-modules:     System.Clock
-    extensions:          ForeignFunctionInterface ScopedTypeVariables
+    extensions:          DeriveGeneric DeriveDataTypeable ForeignFunctionInterface ScopedTypeVariables
     c-sources:           csec/clock.c
     include-dirs:        csec
     install-includes:    clock.h