Parsing date and time specifications

[Mark Carroll]

On 19 Dec 2002, Peter Simons wrote:
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> datatype. It appears that in order to construct one of those, I need
> _all_ the information it contains, including the weekday (Day) and the
> number of the day in the year.
>
> The problem now is that I do not have this information! Of course I
> could calculate these values by hand, but this is immensely
> complicated.
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> Any suggestions what I could do?

I have some calendar calculation code in Haskell from which I could easily
generate code to calculate the weekday (Day) and the number of the day in
the year, if it turns out you do end up needing it.

-- Mark