Why does the time package only define durations up to Hour? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by GarytheSnail@programming.dev to c/golang@programming.dev

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I am doing a lot of work right now that requires day and year durations and I have to define those myself. I wonder why they didn't include those in the time package.

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[-] tedu@azorius.net 10 points 10 months ago

If they provided constants, someone would complain that they produce the wrong result for daylight savings or leap years.

[-] iluminae@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This - no one can agree how long a day, week, month, year etc are!

Like sure it's 24 hours in a day but is a year 365 days? No, not technically speaking.

Time has always been really hard f;r programmers.

[-] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Well now I need to go add some tests and fix some bugs. Thanks yall.

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