[Haskell-cafe] Getting the number of seconds since epoch from System.Time.ClockTime

[Rich Neswold]

On 4/26/07, Martin Percossi <haskell-cafe at martinpercossi.com> wrote:
> In System.Time,
>
> data ClockTime = TOD Integer Integer
>
> , where the first integer represents the number of seconds since epoch,
> and the other represents the number of picoseconds. Is there a way of
> retrieving the first part? (In Haskell 98, the ClockTime type is
abstract).

I usually pattern match the constructor:

    do { TOD epoch _ <- getClockTime
       ; putStrLn $ "epoch is " ++ show epoch }

-- 
Rich

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