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Darinel Cigarroa
Asked: 2022-08-03 13:42:35 +0800 CST 2022-08-03 13:42:35 +0800 CST

calculate elapsed years from a date in GoLang?

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Hello everyone in advance, thanks for your answers and comments, my question is simple, I'm learning GO and I don't know how to do this, I want to get the elapsed years from a given date in Golang ie I have the following date saved in a variable:

date :=  "2020-08-16"

I want to get the years that have elapsed to the current date (2022).

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  1. Best Answer

    Taking into account that you get the current date with currentTime := time.Now()and that a duration is only expressed in hours, minutes and seconds, it would be something like

    func main() {
    // Fecha actual con hora actual
    currentTime := time.Now()

    // Ubicación, zona horaria
    loc := currentTime.Location()

    //La fecha pasada que tienes
    pasttimestr := "2020-08-16 00:00"

    // El formato que le decimos que use para leer las fechas
    layout := "2006-01-02 15:04"

    //Convertir tu fecha pasada a date
    pasttime, err := time.ParseInLocation(layout, pasttimestr, loc)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    // Calculas la diferencia
    diff := pasttime.Sub(currentTime)

    // Informas el resultado en minutos
    fmt.Printf("La diferencia es %v, o %v en minutos\n", diff, diff.Minutes())
}

    And then parse that to days, months and years, dividing as usual the hours by 24 to obtain days and from there, continue.

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