Re: [Haskell-cafe] date parsing and formatting

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alex Baranosky wrote:

I've been working with Haskell's Date.Time modules to parse a date like 12-4-1999 or 1-31-1999. I tried:

parseDay :: String -> Day

parseDay s = readTime defaultTimeLocale "%m%d%Y" s

And I think it wants my months and days to have exactly two digits instead of 1 or 2...

What's the proper way to do this?

Also, I'd like to print out my Day in this format: 12/4/1999 what's the Haskell way to?

Something like this, perhaps, parseDate :: String -> LocalTime parseDate = readTime defaultTimeLocale "%m/%e/%Y" printDate :: LocalTime -> String printDate = formatTime defaultTimeLocale "%m/%-e/%Y" Anthony