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About Time

Overview

This chapter demonstrates how Go handles variables representing time data, which is a very important aspect of the language.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to create your own time format, compare and manage time, calculate the duration of time series, and format time according to user requirements.

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you'll require Go version 1.21 or higher. The code for this chapter can be found at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-From-Beginner-to-Professional-Second-Edition-/blob/main/Chapter12.

Introduction

The previous chapter introduced you to basic debugging in Go. The more you develop code in Go, the better you get; however, developing and deploying code may ...

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