[Haskell-cafe] Converting CTime -> Int

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 16, 2007, at 0:35 , Rob Hoelz wrote:

> wrapping returns time_t.  I see that this maps to CTime in
> Foreign.C.Types, but I can't figure out how to convert it to an Int  
> (or
> any other useful Haskell type, for that matter) for the life of me.
> I've poured over the standard library docs, but to no avail.  Could
> someone give me a hint?

It's an instance of Enum, so use fromEnum to create an Int.  (Don't  
feel too bad, it took me an embarrasingly long amount of time to  
figure that out as well; before that I used read . show :)

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