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Booking up for Beauty

Booking up for Beauty

Learning Exercise

Introduction

A Time in Go is a type describing a moment in time. The date and time information can be accessed, compared, and manipulated through its methods, but there are also some functions called on the time package itself. The current date and time can be retrieved through the time.Now function.

The time.Parse function parses strings into values of type Time. Go has a special way of how you define the layout you expect for the parsing. You need to write an example of the layout using the values from this special timestamp: Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006.

For example:

import "time"

func parseTime() time.Time {
    date := "Tue, 09/22/1995, 13:00"
    layout := "Mon, 01/02/2006, 15:04"

    t, err := time.Parse(layout,date) // time.Time, error
}

// => 1995-09-22 13:00:00 +0000 UTC

The Time.Format() method returns a string representation of time. Just as with the Parse function, the target layout is again defined via an example that uses the values from the special timestamp.

For Example:

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    t := time.Date(1995,time.September,22,13,0,0,0,time.UTC)
    formattedTime := t.Format("Mon, 01/02/2006, 15:04") // string
    fmt.Println(formattedTime)
}

// => Fri, 09/22/1995, 13:00

Layout Options

For a custom layout use combination of these options. In Go predefined date and timestamp format constants are also available.

Time Options
Year 2006 ; 06
Month Jan ; January ; 01 ; 1
Day 02 ; 2 ; _2 (For preceding 0)
Weekday Mon ; Monday
Hour 15 ( 24 hour time format ) ; 3 ; 03 (AM or PM)
Minute 04 ; 4
Second 05 ; 5
AM/PM Mark PM
Day of Year 002 ; __2

The time.Time type has various methods for accessing a particular time. e.g. Hour : Time.Hour() , Month : Time.Month(). More on how this works can be found in official documentation.

The time includes another type, Duration, representing elapsed time, plus support for locations/time zones, timers, and other related functionality that will be covered in another concept.

Instructions

In this exercise you'll be working on an appointment scheduler for a beauty salon that opened on September 15th in 2012.

You have five tasks, which will all involve appointment dates.

1. Parse appointment date

Implement the Schedule function to parse a textual representation of an appointment date into the corresponding time.Time format:

Schedule("7/25/2019 13:45:00")
// => 2019-07-25 13:45:00 +0000 UTC

2. Check if an appointment has already passed

Implement the HasPassed function that takes an appointment date and checks if the appointment was somewhere in the past:

HasPassed("July 25, 2019 13:45:00")
// => true

3. Check if appointment is in the afternoon

Implement the IsAfternoonAppointment function that takes an appointment date and checks if the appointment is in the afternoon (>= 12:00 and < 18:00):

IsAfternoonAppointment("Thursday, July 25, 2019 13:45:00")
// => true

4. Describe the time and date of the appointment

Implement the Description function that takes an appointment date and returns a description of that date and time:

Description("7/25/2019 13:45:00")
// => "You have an appointment on Thursday, July 25, 2019, at 13:45."

5. Return the anniversary date of the salon's opening

Implement the AnniversaryDate function that returns the anniversary date of the salon's opening for the current year in UTC.

Assuming the current year is 2020:

AnniversaryDate()

// => 2020-09-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

Note: the return value is a time.Time and the time of day doesn't matter.

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