how many days ago was 31 december 1999
Calculating the Number of Days
To calculate the number of days between two dates, we can use the time
package in Go. Here are the steps to calculate the number of days between December 31, 1999, and the current date:
Import the
time
package:go import "time"
Get the current date:
go currentDate := time.Now()
Create a
time.Time
object for December 31, 1999:go targetDate := time.Date(1999, time.December, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
Calculate the duration between the two dates:
go duration := currentDate.Sub(targetDate)
Convert the duration to days:
go days := int(duration.Hours() / 24)
The variable days
will now contain the number of days between December 31, 1999, and the current date.
Example Code
Here's an example code snippet that puts all the steps together:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
currentDate := time.Now()
targetDate := time.Date(1999, time.December, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
duration := currentDate.Sub(targetDate)
days := int(duration.Hours() / 24)
fmt.Printf("The number of days between December 31, 1999, and today is: %d\n", days)
}
When you run this code, it will output the number of days between December 31, 1999, and the current date.
Explanation
- We import the
time
package to work with dates and times in Go. - We use the
time.Now()
function to get the current date and time. - We create a
time.Time
object for December 31, 1999, using thetime.Date()
function. - We calculate the duration between the current date and the target date using the
Sub()
method of thetime.Time
object. - We convert the duration to hours using the
Hours()
method and then divide by 24 to get the number of days. - Finally, we print the number of days using
fmt.Printf()
.
Please note that the code snippet provided assumes that you are running it in a Go environment.