[Haskell-cafe] Help parsing dates and times

[Don Stewart]

jgbailey:
>    I am trying to parse various date and time formats using the parseTime
>    function found in (GHC 6.6.1) Data.Time.Format. The one that is giving me
>    trouble looks like this:
> 
>      2008-06-26T11:00:00.000-07:00
> 
>    Specifically, the time zone offset isn't covered by the format parameters
>    given. I can almost parse it with this:
> 
>      %FT%X.000
> 
>    But that doesn't take into account the "-07:00" bit. I'm sure this has
>    been solved - can someone point me to the solution? Thanks in advance.

Is there anything in the parsedate library?

    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/parsedate-2006.11.10
    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/parsedate/2006.11.10/doc/html/System-Time-Parse.html

-- Don