github.com/siverpinevalley/parseduration

Golang parseduration

The built-in package time offer very useful functions.

However, when you use time.ParseDuration, you cannot use time unit that is bigger than hours. This package also offer day, week, month, year time units for parsing string to duration.

Installation

go get https://github.com/SiverPineValley/parseduration

Format

The standard for parsing is same as time.ParseDuration. You can use ParseDuration sending parameters such as 2w3d20h.

Negative numbers are also provided, and if you enter only letters without entering a number, it will be recognized as 0. d == 0d

Standard

Time units are as provided in the table below. A time unit that is not provided or a time unit that is duplicated will cause an error.

In addition, the maximum value for each unit was not separately filtered.

Time Unit	Duration
ns	1 Nano seconds
us	1 Micro Seconds
ms	1 Milli Seconds
s	1 Seconds
m	1 Minutes
h	1 Hours
d	1 Days
w	1 Weeks (7 Days)
M	1 Months (30 Days)
y	1 Years (365 Days)

Examples

package main

import (
	"fmt"
    pd "github.com/SiverPineValley/parseduration"
)

// It returns 4 weeks + 2 days + 3 hours Duration
func main() {
	fmt.Println(pd.ParseDuration("4w2d3h"))
}