Haskell date parsing and formatting

Question

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 -&g         


        

Answer 1

Using %-d and %-m instead of %d and %m means single digit day/month is OK, i.e.

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

This may be what sclv meant, but his comment was a little too cryptic for me.