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Work with dates and times

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Work with dates and times

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- [Instructor] Dates and times are managed in Go with the Time package. A variable declared with the time type encapsulates everything you need for both dates and times, including math operations, time zone management, and so on. To demonstrate this I'll add the time package to my import block and then down here in the main function, I'll create a variable that I'll just call n, for now, and I'll get that value from time.Now a function that's a member of that package. And then I'll output the string, I recorded this video at and I'll pass in n. And when I run the code, I get a long string, a timestamp, that includes the current date, time, and time zone. Now I can also create my own explicit date/time values. This time I'll create a variable called t and I'll use time.Date. This function requires a year, a month, a day, an hour, a minute, a second, and a nanosecond, and something called a location. I'll pass in a…

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