[Haskell-beginners] new locale?

[Robert Wills]

Hi,

Sorry for not replying earlier.  I didn't see this until Friday and 
didn't get much time on my computer this weekend.

I asked this question because I was hoping to find 
System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale doesn't seem to be returning a time 
locale that matches what's on my system.  It returns  dateFmt = 
"%m/%d/%y" while my machine is set to  EN_GB and so presumably it should 
return %d/%m/%y. 

In Python on my machine I get:
 >>> import  locale
 >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('en_GB', 'UTF8')

So anyway, I was wondering whether there was a new locale library that 
fixed this problem.

-Rob

Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:44:34AM +0100, Robert Wills wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/old-locale-1.0.0.1
>>
>> says "This package provides the old locale library. For new code, the new 
>> locale library is recommended."
>>
>> Does anyone know where I would find the new library?
>>     
>
> What locale functions are you trying to use?  As far as I can tell,
> there actually is no "new locale library" and functions for working
> with the locale have been spread across various other libraries as
> appropriate.
>
> -Brent
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