nptime

Documentation

Overview

Package nptime provides a non-pointer version of the time.Time struct that does not have the location pointer information that time.Time has, which is more efficient from a memory management perspective, in cases where you have a lot of time values being kept: https://segment.com/blog/allocation-efficiency-in-high-performance-go-services/

Index

• type Time
  • func (t Time) IsZero() bool
  • func (t *Time) Now()
  • func (t *Time) SetTime(tt time.Time)
  • func (t Time) Time() time.Time

Types

type Time

type Time struct {

	// [time.Time.Unix] seconds since 1970
	Sec int64

	// [time.Time.Nanosecond]; nanosecond offset within second, *not* UnixNano
	NSec uint32
}

Time represents the value of time.Time without using any pointers for the location information, so it is more memory efficient when lots of time values are being stored.

func (Time) IsZero

func (t Time) IsZero() bool

IsZero returns true if the time is zero and has not been initialized.

func (*Time) Now

func (t *Time) Now()

Now sets the time value to time.Now.

func (*Time) SetTime

func (t *Time) SetTime(tt time.Time)

SetTime sets the Time value based on the time.Time. value

func (Time) Time

func (t Time) Time() time.Time

Time returns the time.Time value for this Time value.