[Haskell-beginners] Getting the current system date outside the IO Monad

[AbdulSattar Mohammed]

I'm still learning Haskell and I've started learning Yesod. I pretty much
built a blog before I came this silly roadblock.

Whenever I create a new post, I want it take the current system time as its
creation time. I understand it's an impure operation and it must go into
the IO Monad to be performed. But, in Yesod, your handler is of the type
Handler RepHtml. I don't get how you could get the impure value into a pure
function without main playing any part.

Here's the link for my blog: http://hpaste.org/55757#line85

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Warm Regards,

AbdulSattar Mohammed
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