--- | The format string for a time_stamp. We keep the leading/trailing
--- space so that parseTime and formatTime are inverses are one
--- another, even though there is some confusion as to how these two
--- functions should behave:
+-- | The format string for a time_stamp. We have removed the
+-- leading/trailing space so that parseTime and formatTime are NOT
+-- inverses of one another. We should be able to rectify this once
+-- everything is updated to support time-1.5. See,