{"id":1186,"date":"2020-01-22T03:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golangbyexamples.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2020-01-22T03:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:12:30","slug":"dob-golang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golangbyexamples.com\/dob-golang\/","title":{"rendered":"Represent Date of Birth in Go (Golang)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>time.Date<\/strong> function of <strong>time<\/strong> package can be used to create a particular date that can represent a DOB. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">See below example<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>getDOB is the function that takes in a year, month and day and returns a date.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-go\">package main\n\nimport (\n    \"fmt\"\n    \"time\"\n)\n\nconst (\n    \/\/TimeFormat1 to format date into\n    TimeFormat1 = \"2006-01-02\"\n    \/\/TimeFormat2 Other format to format date time\n    TimeFormat2 = \"January 02, 2006\"\n)\n\nfunc main() {\n    dob := getDOB(2011, 4, 2)\n    fmt.Println(dob.Format(TimeFormat1))\n    fmt.Println(dob.Format(TimeFormat2))\n}\n\nfunc getDOB(year, month, day int) time.Time {\n    dob := time.Date(year, time.Month(month), day, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)\n    return dob\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Output:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-go\">2011-04-02\nApril 02, 2011<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>time.Date function of time package can be used to create a particular date that can represent a DOB. 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