[Haskell-cafe] Re: Getting the number of seconds since epoch from System.Time.ClockTime

Martin Percossi wrote:

Hello haskell-cafe,

In System.Time,

data ClockTime = TOD Integer Integer

, where the first integer represents the number of seconds since epoch, and the other represents the number of picoseconds. Is there a way of retrieving the first part? (In Haskell 98, the ClockTime type is abstract).

Better to use the new time package, in particular Data.Time.Clock.POSIX: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/time/Data-Time-Clock-P... getPOSIXTime will do what you want. Cheers, Simon