Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help parsing dates and times

On Oct 16, 2007, at 21:39 , Carl Witty wrote:

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:25 -0700, Justin Bailey wrote:

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On 10/16/07, Bjorn Bringert wrote:

Should we just add XX:XX as an alternative time zone offset format accepted by %z and %Z? Is this a standard format?

Yes, this is standard; see below.

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I'm not sure, but I am getting this date from Google in their XML feeds representing calendar data. The specific element is "gd:when", documented here:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/elements.html#gdWhen

That refers to XML Schema; the dateTime type in XML Schema is standardized here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime (and time zone offsets are required to have a colon in this format).

Thanks, I have added this to the parser now. I can't push right now because of performance problems, but it'll be in darcs soon. Now it works: Prelude Data.Time System.Locale> parseTime defaultTimeLocale "%FT%T%Q% z" "2008-06-26T11:00:00.087-07:00" :: Maybe ZonedTime Just 2008-06-26 11:00:00.087 -0700 Note that I use %Q for the second decimals instead of .000, this makes it accept non-integer seconds. /Björn