On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:15:12PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Greetings. > > Is there a standard library function anywhere which will parse a string > into some kind of date/time representation? And, further, is there some > function that will tell me how many seconds elapsed between two such times? I know about Data.Time.* and System.Time ( tdSec . diffClockTimes )
For parsing there is the library written by bringert: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/parsedate/ I don't know wether it is in the library index on the haskell.org. If not we should add it. I was'nt able to find it there. > (I see there's a giant pile of modules to do with dates and times, but I > can't make much sense out of them - and in at least one place, the The trouble is that time processing can be complicated if you want to pay attention to leap seconds/ years etc. leap seconds can't be known in advance etc. > documentation on the Haskell website doesn't actually match what's > installed on my computer!) That's why I'm reading the source all the time ;) > 2007-05-26 11:23:16 PM|Begin processing... HTH Marc Weber _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
