Time

The Time registry provides tools to manage and manipulate dates, times, and time-related calculations, making it easy to handle time-based data in your projects.

You can easily import all the functions from the time registry by including the following import statement in your code

import "github.com/go-sprout/sprout/registry/time"

date

The function formats a given date or the current time into a specified format string.

Signature	Date(fmt string, date any) (string, error)

Template Example

{{ "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z" | date "Jan 2, 2006" }} // Output: "May 4, 2023"

dateInZone

The function formats a given date or the current time into a specified format string for a specified timezone.

Signature	DateInZone(fmt string, date any, zone string) (string, error)

Template Example

{{ dateInZone "Jan 2, 2006", "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z", "UTC" }} // Output: "May 4, 2023"
{{ dateInZone "Jan 2, 2006", "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z", "invalid" }} // Error

duration

The function converts a given number of seconds into a human-readable duration string.

Signature	Duration(sec any) string

Template Example

{{ 3661 | duration }} // Output: "1h1m1s"

dateAgo

The function calculates the time elapsed since a given date.

Signature	DateAgo(date any) string

Template Example

{{ "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z" | dateAgo }} // Output: "4m"

dateAgo can receive multiples input types like:

• time.Time object (object or pointer)

• int, int32, int64 converted as Unix

now

The function returns the current time.

Signature	Now() time.Time

Template Example

{{ now }} // Output: "2023-05-07T15:04:05Z"

unixEpoch

The function returns the Unix epoch timestamp for a given date.

Signature	UnixEpoch(date time.Time) string

Template Example

{{ now | unixEpoch }} // Output: "1683306245"

dateModify

The function adjusts a given date by a specified duration, returning the modified date. If the duration format is incorrect, it returns the original date without any changes, in case of must version, an error are returned.

Signature	DateModify(fmt string, date time.Time) (time.Time, error)

Template Example

{{ "2024-05-04T15:04:05Z" | dateModify "48h" }}
// Output: "2024-05-06T15:04:05Z", nil
{{ "2024-05-04T15:04:05Z" | dateModify "0z+" }}
// Output: "0000-00-00T00:00:00Z", error

durationRound

The function rounds a duration to the nearest significant time unit, such as years or seconds.

Signature	DurationRound(duration any) string

Template Example

{{ "9600h" | durationRound }} // Output: "1y"
{{ "960h" | durationRound }} // Output: "1mo"
{{ "192h" | durationRound }} // Output: "8d"
{{ "3600s" | durationRound }} // Output: "1h"
{{ "300s" | durationRound }} // Output: "5m"
{{ "61s" | durationRound }} // Output: "1m"
{{ "59s" | durationRound }} // Output: "59s"

htmlDate

The function formats a date into the standard HTML date format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Signature	HtmlDate(date any) (string, error)

Template Example

{{ "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z" | htmlDate }} // Output: "2023-05-04"

This basically call dateInZone("2006-01-02", date, "Local")

htmlDateInZone

The function formats a date into the standard HTML date format (YYYY-MM-DD) based on a specified timezone.

Signature	HtmlDateInZone(date any, zone string) (string, error)

Template Example

{{ "2023-05-04T15:04:05Z", "UTC" | htmlDateInZone }} // Output: "2023-05-04"

This basically call dateInZone("2006-01-02", date, zone)