dokondr wrote:
All I actually need is some way to get *seconds* since epoch from the system, so I could manipulate them as integers.
Well, you already have that - that's exactly what POSIXTime is. It is a numerical type, an instance of the RealFrac class. So perhaps you can do all of your calculations within that type itself, without converting it to anything else. If you really do need to convert it, *please* don't do that by going all the way to String and back! Just cast it or convert like you would any other numerical type. To make it a Fractional, like Float, Double, or Rational, use realToFrac. Since POSIX allows time to be specified with granularity much finer than seconds, the POSIXTime type is not an instance of Integral. (Even on operating systems where POSIX does happen to be counted in whole seconds.) So to get to an Integral type, you'll need to use some kind of rounding function, like round, floor, or ceiling. Regards, Yitz