publish time

examples.txt

@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ String Functions
 Regular Expressions
 # Bytes
 # JSON
-# Time
+# Protocol Buffers
+Time
+# Time Parsing / Formatting
 # Epochs
 # Elapsed Time
 # Random Numbers

examples/elapsed-time/elapsed-time.go

@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ func main() {
     time.Sleep(3 * time.Second)
     fmt.Println(time.Since(start))
 }
+
+// todo: check out that blog post

examples/time/time.go

@@ -1,20 +1,61 @@
+// Go's offers extensive support for times and durations;
+// here are some examples.
+
 package main
 
-import "time"
 import "fmt"
+import "time"
 
 func main() {
-    now := time.Now()
+    p := fmt.Println
-    fmt.Println(now)
 
+    // We'll start by getting the current time.
+    now := time.Now()
+    p(now)
+
+    // You can build a `time` struct by providing the
+    // year, month, day, etc. Times are always associated
+    // with a `Location`, i.e. time zone.
     then := time.Date(
         2009, 11, 17, 20, 34, 58, 651387237, time.UTC)
-    fmt.Println(then)
+    p(then)
 
+    // You can extract the various components of the time
+    // value as expected.
+    p(then.Year())
+    p(then.Month())
+    p(then.Day())
+    p(then.Hour())
+    p(then.Minute())
+    p(then.Second())
+    p(then.Nanosecond())
+    p(then.Location())
+
+    // The Monday-Sunday `Weekday` is also available.
+    p(then.Weekday())
+
+    // These methods compare two times, testing if the
+    // first occurs before, after, or at the same time
+    // as the second, respectively.
+    p(then.Before(now))
+    p(then.After(now))
+    p(then.Equal(now))
+
+    // The `Sub` methods returns a `Duration` representing
+    // the interval between two times.
     diff := now.Sub(then)
-    fmt.Println(diff)
+    p(diff)
-}
 
-// todo: extract parts
+    // We can compute the length of the duration in
-// todo: add duration
+    // various units.
-// todo: check before / after
+    p(diff.Hours())
+    p(diff.Minutes())
+    p(diff.Seconds())
+    p(diff.Nanoseconds())
+
+    // You can use `Add` to advance a time by a given
+    // duration, or with a `-` to move backwards by a
+    // duration.
+    p(then.Add(diff))
+    p(then.Add(-diff))
+}

examples/time/time.sh

@@ -1,4 +1,25 @@
 $ go run time.go
-2012-09-23 11:28:59.551605 -0700 PDT
+2012-10-31 15:50:13.793654 +0000 UTC
 2009-11-17 20:34:58.651387237 +0000 UTC
-24981h54m0.900217763s
+2009
+November
+17
+20
+34
+58
+651387237
+UTC
+Tuesday
+true
+false
+false
+25891h15m15.142266763s
+25891.25420618521
+1.5534752523711128e+06
+9.320851514226677e+07
+93208515142266763
+2012-10-31 15:50:13.793654 +0000 UTC
+2006-12-05 01:19:43.509120474 +0000 UTC
+
+# Learn more about Go's time support in the
+# [`time`](http://golang.org/pkg/time/) package docs.