[Haskell-cafe] formatTime doesn't work with local time ??

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 16:42:56 schrieb Brian Denheyer:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:15:07 -0800
>
> Brian Denheyer <briand at aracnet.com> wrote:
> > My error:
> >
> >     Couldn't match expected type `T.UTCTime'
> >            against inferred type `T.LocalTime'
> >     In the second argument of `formatTime', namely `date'
> >     In the expression: formatTime "%Y/%m/%e %k:%M:%S" date
>
> Nevermind...
>
> I had defined :
>
> formatTime = T.formatTime defaultTimeLocale
>
> which used the T.formatTime for the UTCTime instance.  The following
>
>  T.formatTime defaultTimeLocale "%Y/%m/%e %k:%M:%S" date
>
> works just fine (date is Localtime)
>
> Brian

Monomorphism restriction, I presume?