date

Provides a data type Date that represents a day-precision point in time.

Date is conceptually similar to Unix time (also known as POSIX time or Unix Epoch time). But rather than operating at second-level precision, it operates at day-level precision. Under the hood, Date is an integer type that represents the number of days elapsed since the epoch date 1970-01-01.

date.Date leverages much of its functionality from the time package.

Features

• Since Date is an integer type, the normal integer comparison and equality/inequality operators all work out of the box.

• Conversions to and from ISO8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) string format.

• Conversion to and from time.Time values.

• Day, month, and year arithmetic (can add or subtract years, months, days from a Date).

• Common date related operations, such as finding the start of a month, start of a quarter etc.

• JSON marshal/unmarshal support.

• SQL marshal/unmarshal support.