A Utility for Parsing Dates and Times

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Implementation details: Parsing time utility
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On a rare occasion, a situation can happen when we do not know anything about our input. If we do not know the exact format of our input, then we need to try matching our input against multiple Go strings without being sure that we are going to succeed in the end. This is the approach that the example uses. The Go matching strings for dates and times can be tried in any order.

If we are matching a string that only contains the date, then our time will be set to 00:00 by Go and will most likely be incorrect. Similarly, when only matching the time, our date will be incorrect and should not be used.

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Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

A Utility for Parsing Dates and Times