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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243054
Pages 680 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Samantha Coyle Samantha Coyle
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Table of Contents (30) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Scripts
2. Chapter 1: Variables and Operators 3. Chapter 2: Command and Control 4. Chapter 3: Core Types 5. Chapter 4: Complex Types 6. Part 2: Components
7. Chapter 5: Functions – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle 8. Chapter 6: Don’t Panic! Handle Your Errors 9. Chapter 7: Interfaces 10. Chapter 8: Generic Algorithm Superpowers 11. Part 3: Modules
12. Chapter 9: Using Go Modules to Define a Project 13. Chapter 10: Packages Keep Projects Manageable 14. Chapter 11: Bug-Busting Debugging Skills 15. Chapter 12: About Time 16. Part 4: Applications
17. Chapter 13: Programming from the Command Line 18. Chapter 14: File and Systems 19. Chapter 15: SQL and Databases 20. Part 5: Building For The Web
21. Chapter 16: Web Servers 22. Chapter 17: Using the Go HTTP Client 23. Part 6: Professional
24. Chapter 18: Concurrent Work 25. Chapter 19: Testing 26. Chapter 20: Using Go Tools 27. Chapter 21: Go in the Cloud 28. Index 29. Other Books You May Enjoy

Comparing time

Most of the time, when working with Go on smaller scripts, it is very important for your statistics to know when a script should run, or between what hours and minutes a script should be completed. By statistics, we mean knowing how much time the app saves by executing a specific operation compared to what time cost it would have if we had to perform these manually. This allows us to measure the improvement of the script over time when we develop the functionality further. In this topic, we will look at some live examples demonstrating how you can solve this problem.

Let’s look at the logic for the first script, which was intended not to run before or after a specified time. This time can arrive either via another automation or when a trigger file is manually placed there; every day, the script needs to run at different times –specifically, after the specified time as soon as possible.

The time was in the following 2023-09-27T22:08:41+00:00 format...

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