Re: Any way to read in a time?

David Roundy writes:

I've been looking at the standard Time module, and it seems pretty easy to convert a date into a string (using either calendarTimeToString or formatCalendarTime), but there doesn't seem to be any way to reverse the process. [...] Does anyone have a suggestion how best to go about this?

You may want to have a look at how the UNIX C library does it: info libc "Parsing Date and Time". If Linux is enough for you, one possibility is to interface getdate_r() via the FFI. Note however, that this function isn't pure. Feri.