Get Day, Month, and Year from Time in Go Language

Question

I have an object like this:

type searchObj struct {
    symbol string
    dataType string
    fromDate time.Time
    toDate time.Time
}

I want to be able to parse out the day, month, and year from the fromDate and the toDate. How can I do this? Is there a better type to use like (Date) because I do not need the time piece of it?

so I want to be able to pass a date like this 02/19/2016 and be able to get data.Day = 19, date.Month = 02, date.Year = 2016.

I was trying something like this:

search.fromDate.Date.Month
search.fromDate.Date.Day
search.fromDate.Date.Year

This is an example of what I am currently using to create the searchObj:

time.Date(2009, time.November, 10, 23, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)

I am new to Go and thank you for the help!

Answer 1

All the methods you're looking for exist on the time.Time type. You can just do;

year := fromDate.Year()
month := fromDate.Month()
day := fromDate.Day()

EDIT: I suppose it would be more concise to use time.Date like so;

year, month, day := fromDate.Date()

Answer 2

The time type also has Date() method which returns the year, month and day of the time in single call.

Answer 3

With the accepted method, if you need the month number you can simply cast the Month object to int since it's an enum:

year, month, day := time.Now().Date()
log.Printf("%v-%v-%v", year, int(month), day)