I am trying to format a timestamp from an api. It is sent in the format "2011-03-24T20:30:47Z"
what I want to output is something like this (strftime "%d %b %g " (localtime (current-time)) ) However I am unable to work out how to do this, have tried using string->date with results below Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guile-user)> (define date "2011-03-24T20:30:47Z") scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) scheme@(guile-user)> (string->date "~Y-m-dT~H:~M:SZ" date) srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure priv:string->date: srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure string->date: TIME-ERROR type bad-date-format-string: "2011-03-24T20:30:47Z" Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue. scheme@(guile-user) [1]> (string->date date "~Y-m-dT~H:~M:SZ") srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure priv:string->date: srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure string->date: TIME-ERROR type bad-date-format-string: "~Y-m-dT~H:~M:SZ" Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue. scheme@(guile-user) [2]> (string->date date "~Y-m-dT~H:~M:SZ") srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure priv:string->date: srfi/srfi-19.scm:1415:18: In procedure string->date: TIME-ERROR type bad-date-format-string: "~Y-m-dT~H:~M:SZ" Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue. scheme@(guile-user) [3]> (string->date "2000" "~Y") srfi/srfi-19.scm:571:22: In procedure encode-julian-day-number: srfi/srfi-19.scm:571:22: In procedure -: Wrong type: #f thanks for any help //guy