In article <41F75D46.90704@imperial.ac.uk>,
Keean Schupke
So my vote goes for the unixy way of doing it, with a simple getTime function that returns milliseconds after the epoch,
Unfortunately "the unixy way of doing it" and "a simple getTime function that returns milliseconds after the epoch" are not the same thing at all. Read the section "Unix system time and the POSIX standard" on this page: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html Wikipedia also explains it. "[Unix time] is sufficiently similar to a linear representation of the passage of time that it is frequently mistaken for one": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time But you should probably read my earlier message first if you haven't already: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2005-January/002908.html -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA