[Haskell-cafe] date parsing and formatting

[Alex Baranosky]

I've been working with Haskell's Date.Time modules to parse a date like
12-4-1999 or 1-31-1999. I tried:

parseDay :: String -> Day
parseDay s = readTime defaultTimeLocale "%m%d%Y" s

And I think it wants my months and days to have exactly two digits instead
of 1 or 2...

What's the proper way to do this?

Also, I'd like to print out my Day in this format: 12/4/1999 what's the
Haskell way to?

Thanks for the help.

Alex
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