Preferred way to do locales in the Haskell Platform

Question

The Haskell platform includes two obsolete libraries, old-time and old-locale. For old-time, it also includes the preferred alternative (namely time), but I can't figure out what the recommended alternative for old-locale is.

Is this simply a shortcoming of the Platform as of now (version 2010.1.0.0), or something I've overlooked?

Answer 1

The libraries in the HP are by definition not obsolete. The particular names used though, are up to the maintainers. old-locale remains the preferred mechanism for manipulating locales.