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. I understand that there are so many date and time formats that it may be hard to parse, and that for many formats there may be no unambiguous translation back into a CalendarTime (e.g. if the time zone isn't included in the string), but it seems like a pretty fundamental (and commonly needed) ability to be able to output a human-readable date and then read it back in. Does anyone have a suggestion how best to go about this? I guess the easiest way might be to just convert to UTC and then use formatCalendarTime to choose what formatting I want and then write my own parser to reverse the process. But this seems like a process with a relatively high probability of introducing rarely seen bugs, which ought to be dealt with by a standard library. Of course, there are also a couple of other workarounds I could use. CalendarTime derives from Show, so I could just output the result of show, but that's an awfully verbose format. I could also give up on comparing dates (which I don't necesarily need, although it is nice) and just treat dates as strings. Any ideas or commentary would be welcome. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/