I am looking for a simple way to get the current days sincethe epoch. Most language's standard time library have a get-seconds function that returns the number of seconds since the epoch, thus the function is for example in scheme: (define (days-since-epoch) ((get-seconds) / (* 60 60 24))) But it seems that in haskell the standard definition for the time library will not give me seconds since the epoch. There is technically enough information in the CalendarTime structure to calculate it, but it is a pretty complicated algorithm. Not to mention the fact that it is the exact opposite of the algorithm used to get that information in the first place, so I'd like to not have to undo it and just get the seconds as they are. Thanks for the help -mike