Documentation ¶
Overview ¶
Package time provides functionality for measuring and displaying time.
The calendrical calculations always assume a Gregorian calendar.
Index ¶
- Constants
- func After(d Duration) <-chan Time
- func Sleep(d Duration)
- func Tick(d Duration) <-chan Time
- type Duration
- type Location
- type Month
- type ParseError
- type Ticker
- type Time
- func (t Time) Add(d Duration) Time
- func (t Time) AddDate(years int, months int, days int) Time
- func (t Time) After(u Time) bool
- func (t Time) Before(u Time) bool
- func (t Time) Clock() (hour, min, sec int)
- func (t Time) Date() (year int, month Month, day int)
- func (t Time) Day() int
- func (t Time) Equal(u Time) bool
- func (t Time) Format(layout string) string
- func (t *Time) GobDecode(buf []byte) error
- func (t Time) GobEncode() ([]byte, error)
- func (t Time) Hour() int
- func (t Time) ISOWeek() (year, week int)
- func (t Time) In(loc *Location) Time
- func (t Time) IsZero() bool
- func (t Time) Local() Time
- func (t Time) Location() *Location
- func (t Time) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
- func (t Time) Minute() int
- func (t Time) Month() Month
- func (t Time) Nanosecond() int
- func (t Time) Round(d Duration) Time
- func (t Time) Second() int
- func (t Time) String() string
- func (t Time) Sub(u Time) Duration
- func (t Time) Truncate(d Duration) Time
- func (t Time) UTC() Time
- func (t Time) Unix() int64
- func (t Time) UnixNano() int64
- func (t *Time) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) (err error)
- func (t Time) Weekday() Weekday
- func (t Time) Year() int
- func (t Time) YearDay() int
- func (t Time) Zone() (name string, offset int)
- type Timer
- type Weekday
Examples ¶
Constants ¶
const ( ANSIC = "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006" UnixDate = "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 MST 2006" RubyDate = "Mon Jan 02 15:04:05 -0700 2006" RFC822 = "02 Jan 06 15:04 MST" RFC822Z = "02 Jan 06 15:04 -0700" // RFC822 with numeric zone RFC850 = "Monday, 02-Jan-06 15:04:05 MST" RFC1123 = "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST" RFC1123Z = "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" // RFC1123 with numeric zone RFC3339 = "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00" RFC3339Nano = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00" Kitchen = "3:04PM" // Handy time stamps. Stamp = "Jan _2 15:04:05" StampMilli = "Jan _2 15:04:05.000" StampMicro = "Jan _2 15:04:05.000000" StampNano = "Jan _2 15:04:05.000000000" )
These are predefined layouts for use in Time.Format. The standard time used in the layouts is:
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006
which is Unix time 1136243045. Since MST is GMT-0700, the standard time can be thought of as
01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700
To define your own format, write down what the standard time would look like formatted your way; see the values of constants like ANSIC, StampMicro or Kitchen for examples.
Within the format string, an underscore _ represents a space that may be replaced by a digit if the following number (a day) has two digits; for compatibility with fixed-width Unix time formats.
A decimal point followed by one or more zeros represents a fractional second, printed to the given number of decimal places. A decimal point followed by one or more nines represents a fractional second, printed to the given number of decimal places, with trailing zeros removed. When parsing (only), the input may contain a fractional second field immediately after the seconds field, even if the layout does not signify its presence. In that case a decimal point followed by a maximal series of digits is parsed as a fractional second.
Numeric time zone offsets format as follows:
-0700 ±hhmm -07:00 ±hh:mm
Replacing the sign in the format with a Z triggers the ISO 8601 behavior of printing Z instead of an offset for the UTC zone. Thus:
Z0700 Z or ±hhmm Z07:00 Z or ±hh:mm
const ( Nanosecond Duration = 1 Microsecond = 1000 * Nanosecond Millisecond = 1000 * Microsecond Second = 1000 * Millisecond Minute = 60 * Second Hour = 60 * Minute )
Common durations. There is no definition for units of Day or larger to avoid confusion across daylight savings time zone transitions.
To count the number of units in a Duration, divide:
second := time.Second fmt.Print(int64(second/time.Millisecond)) // prints 1000
To convert an integer number of units to a Duration, multiply:
seconds := 10 fmt.Print(time.Duration(seconds)*time.Second) // prints 10s
Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
func After ¶
After waits for the duration to elapse and then sends the current time on the returned channel. It is equivalent to NewTimer(d).C.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) var c chan int func handle(int) {} func main() { select { case m := <-c: handle(m) case <-time.After(5 * time.Minute): fmt.Println("timed out") } }
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func Tick ¶
Tick is a convenience wrapper for NewTicker providing access to the ticking channel only. Useful for clients that have no need to shut down the ticker.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func statusUpdate() string { return "" } func main() { c := time.Tick(1 * time.Minute) for now := range c { fmt.Printf("%v %s\n", now, statusUpdate()) } }
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Types ¶
type Duration ¶
type Duration int64
A Duration represents the elapsed time between two instants as an int64 nanosecond count. The representation limits the largest representable duration to approximately 290 years.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func expensiveCall() {} func main() { t0 := time.Now() expensiveCall() t1 := time.Now() fmt.Printf("The call took %v to run.\n", t1.Sub(t0)) }
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func ParseDuration ¶
ParseDuration parses a duration string. A duration string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, each with optional fraction and a unit suffix, such as "300ms", "-1.5h" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".
func (Duration) Nanoseconds ¶
Nanoseconds returns the duration as an integer nanosecond count.
func (Duration) String ¶
String returns a string representing the duration in the form "72h3m0.5s". Leading zero units are omitted. As a special case, durations less than one second format use a smaller unit (milli-, micro-, or nanoseconds) to ensure that the leading digit is non-zero. The zero duration formats as 0, with no unit.
type Location ¶
type Location struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
A Location maps time instants to the zone in use at that time. Typically, the Location represents the collection of time offsets in use in a geographical area, such as CEST and CET for central Europe.
var Local *Location = &localLoc
Local represents the system's local time zone.
var UTC *Location = &utcLoc
UTC represents Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).
func FixedZone ¶
FixedZone returns a Location that always uses the given zone name and offset (seconds east of UTC).
func LoadLocation ¶
LoadLocation returns the Location with the given name.
If the name is "" or "UTC", LoadLocation returns UTC. If the name is "Local", LoadLocation returns Local.
Otherwise, the name is taken to be a location name corresponding to a file in the IANA Time Zone database, such as "America/New_York".
The time zone database needed by LoadLocation may not be present on all systems, especially non-Unix systems. LoadLocation looks in the directory or uncompressed zip file named by the ZONEINFO environment variable, if any, then looks in known installation locations on Unix systems, and finally looks in $GOROOT/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip.
type Month ¶
type Month int
A Month specifies a month of the year (January = 1, ...).
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { _, month, day := time.Now().Date() if month == time.November && day == 10 { fmt.Println("Happy Go day!") } }
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type ParseError ¶
type ParseError struct { Layout string Value string LayoutElem string ValueElem string Message string }
ParseError describes a problem parsing a time string.
func (*ParseError) Error ¶
func (e *ParseError) Error() string
Error returns the string representation of a ParseError.
type Ticker ¶
type Ticker struct { C <-chan Time // The channel on which the ticks are delivered. // contains filtered or unexported fields }
A Ticker holds a channel that delivers `ticks' of a clock at intervals.
type Time ¶
type Time struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
A Time represents an instant in time with nanosecond precision.
Programs using times should typically store and pass them as values, not pointers. That is, time variables and struct fields should be of type time.Time, not *time.Time. A Time value can be used by multiple goroutines simultaneously.
Time instants can be compared using the Before, After, and Equal methods. The Sub method subtracts two instants, producing a Duration. The Add method adds a Time and a Duration, producing a Time.
The zero value of type Time is January 1, year 1, 00:00:00.000000000 UTC. As this time is unlikely to come up in practice, the IsZero method gives a simple way of detecting a time that has not been initialized explicitly.
Each Time has associated with it a Location, consulted when computing the presentation form of the time, such as in the Format, Hour, and Year methods. The methods Local, UTC, and In return a Time with a specific location. Changing the location in this way changes only the presentation; it does not change the instant in time being denoted and therefore does not affect the computations described in earlier paragraphs.
func Date ¶
Date returns the Time corresponding to
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss + nsec nanoseconds
in the appropriate zone for that time in the given location.
The month, day, hour, min, sec, and nsec values may be outside their usual ranges and will be normalized during the conversion. For example, October 32 converts to November 1.
A daylight savings time transition skips or repeats times. For example, in the United States, March 13, 2011 2:15am never occurred, while November 6, 2011 1:15am occurred twice. In such cases, the choice of time zone, and therefore the time, is not well-defined. Date returns a time that is correct in one of the two zones involved in the transition, but it does not guarantee which.
Date panics if loc is nil.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { t := time.Date(2009, time.November, 10, 23, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC) fmt.Printf("Go launched at %s\n", t.Local()) }
Output: Go launched at 2009-11-10 15:00:00 -0800 PST
func Parse ¶
Parse parses a formatted string and returns the time value it represents. The layout defines the format by showing the representation of the standard time,
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006
which is then used to describe the string to be parsed. Predefined layouts ANSIC, UnixDate, RFC3339 and others describe standard representations. For more information about the formats and the definition of the standard time, see the documentation for ANSIC.
Elements omitted from the value are assumed to be zero or, when zero is impossible, one, so parsing "3:04pm" returns the time corresponding to Jan 1, year 0, 15:04:00 UTC (note that because the year is 0, this time is before the zero Time). Years must be in the range 0000..9999. The day of the week is checked for syntax but it is otherwise ignored.
func Unix ¶
Unix returns the local Time corresponding to the given Unix time, sec seconds and nsec nanoseconds since January 1, 1970 UTC. It is valid to pass nsec outside the range [0, 999999999].
func (Time) AddDate ¶
AddDate returns the time corresponding to adding the given number of years, months, and days to t. For example, AddDate(-1, 2, 3) applied to January 1, 2011 returns March 4, 2010.
AddDate normalizes its result in the same way that Date does, so, for example, adding one month to October 31 yields December 1, the normalized form for November 31.
func (Time) Equal ¶
Equal reports whether t and u represent the same time instant. Two times can be equal even if they are in different locations. For example, 6:00 +0200 CEST and 4:00 UTC are Equal. This comparison is different from using t == u, which also compares the locations.
func (Time) Format ¶
Format returns a textual representation of the time value formatted according to layout. The layout defines the format by showing the representation of the standard time,
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006
which is then used to describe the time to be formatted. Predefined layouts ANSIC, UnixDate, RFC3339 and others describe standard representations. For more information about the formats and the definition of the standard time, see the documentation for ANSIC.
func (Time) ISOWeek ¶
ISOWeek returns the ISO 8601 year and week number in which t occurs. Week ranges from 1 to 53. Jan 01 to Jan 03 of year n might belong to week 52 or 53 of year n-1, and Dec 29 to Dec 31 might belong to week 1 of year n+1.
func (Time) IsZero ¶
IsZero reports whether t represents the zero time instant, January 1, year 1, 00:00:00 UTC.
func (Time) MarshalJSON ¶
MarshalJSON implements the json.Marshaler interface. Time is formatted as RFC3339.
func (Time) Minute ¶
Minute returns the minute offset within the hour specified by t, in the range [0, 59].
func (Time) Nanosecond ¶
Nanosecond returns the nanosecond offset within the second specified by t, in the range [0, 999999999].
func (Time) Round ¶
Round returns the result of rounding t to the nearest multiple of d (since the zero time). The rounding behavior for halfway values is to round up. If d <= 0, Round returns t unchanged.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { t := time.Date(0, 0, 0, 12, 15, 30, 918273645, time.UTC) round := []time.Duration{ time.Nanosecond, time.Microsecond, time.Millisecond, time.Second, 2 * time.Second, time.Minute, 10 * time.Minute, time.Hour, } for _, d := range round { fmt.Printf("t.Round(%6s) = %s\n", d, t.Round(d).Format("15:04:05.999999999")) } }
Output: t.Round( 1ns) = 12:15:30.918273645 t.Round( 1us) = 12:15:30.918274 t.Round( 1ms) = 12:15:30.918 t.Round( 1s) = 12:15:31 t.Round( 2s) = 12:15:30 t.Round( 1m0s) = 12:16:00 t.Round( 10m0s) = 12:20:00 t.Round(1h0m0s) = 12:00:00
func (Time) Second ¶
Second returns the second offset within the minute specified by t, in the range [0, 59].
func (Time) String ¶
String returns the time formatted using the format string
"2006-01-02 15:04:05.999999999 -0700 MST"
func (Time) Truncate ¶
Truncate returns the result of rounding t down to a multiple of d (since the zero time). If d <= 0, Truncate returns t unchanged.
Example ¶
package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { t, _ := time.Parse("2006 Jan 02 15:04:05", "2012 Dec 07 12:15:30.918273645") trunc := []time.Duration{ time.Nanosecond, time.Microsecond, time.Millisecond, time.Second, 2 * time.Second, time.Minute, 10 * time.Minute, time.Hour, } for _, d := range trunc { fmt.Printf("t.Truncate(%6s) = %s\n", d, t.Truncate(d).Format("15:04:05.999999999")) } }
Output: t.Truncate( 1ns) = 12:15:30.918273645 t.Truncate( 1us) = 12:15:30.918273 t.Truncate( 1ms) = 12:15:30.918 t.Truncate( 1s) = 12:15:30 t.Truncate( 2s) = 12:15:30 t.Truncate( 1m0s) = 12:15:00 t.Truncate( 10m0s) = 12:10:00 t.Truncate(1h0m0s) = 12:00:00
func (Time) Unix ¶
Unix returns t as a Unix time, the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 UTC.
func (Time) UnixNano ¶
UnixNano returns t as a Unix time, the number of nanoseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 UTC. The result is undefined if the Unix time in nanoseconds cannot be represented by an int64. Note that this means the result of calling UnixNano on the zero Time is undefined.
func (*Time) UnmarshalJSON ¶
UnmarshalJSON implements the json.Unmarshaler interface. Time is expected in RFC3339 format.
type Timer ¶
type Timer struct { C <-chan Time // contains filtered or unexported fields }
The Timer type represents a single event. When the Timer expires, the current time will be sent on C, unless the Timer was created by AfterFunc.
func AfterFunc ¶
AfterFunc waits for the duration to elapse and then calls f in its own goroutine. It returns a Timer that can be used to cancel the call using its Stop method.
func NewTimer ¶
NewTimer creates a new Timer that will send the current time on its channel after at least duration d.