[Haskell-cafe] Sillyness in the standard libs.

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

LS,

here is a puzzle for you: try converting a  
System.Posix.Types.EpochTime into either a
System.Time.CalendarTime or a Data.Time.Clock.UTCTime without going  
through
read . show or a similar detour through strings.

The problem comes up when trying to easily nicely display the access,  
modification
or status change times of a full directory of files, using  
System.Posix.Files.Filestatus
to get at the times.

A closely related issue: fromIntegral is in Integral which also  
requires quotRem. However,
	the two are semantically quite disjoint. I can *easily* see the  
semantics of fromIntegral
	on EpochTime, but not the semantics of quotRem on EpochTime. Having  
fromIntegral
	would solve the above puzzle... :)

With kind regards, Arthur.

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