Dates Go Library

This is a simple Go library that provides helper functions and methods for calculating various date ranges and specific dates. It's designed to simplify date calculations and manipulations in your Go applications.

Features

• Week Struct: Defines a week with a start and end day. You can create a new week with custom start and end days.
• Date Function: Creates a new date with the time truncated.
• Day Function: Returns the truncated date of the given time.
• LastDayOfMonth Function: Returns the last day of the month for a given date.
• WeekAdd Function: Adds or subtracts weeks from a given date.
• StartOfWeek Method: Returns the start of the week for a given date.
• LastFullWeek Method: Returns the start and end dates of the last full week.
• PriorLastFullWeek Method: Returns the start and end dates of the week prior to the last full week.
• PrevYearLastFullWeek Method: Returns the start and end dates of the last full week of the previous year.
• MonthToDate Function: Returns the 1st of the month to the given date.
• FullMonth Function: Returns the start and last day of the given date's month.
• FirstOfNextMonth Function: Returns the first day of the next month from a given date.
• PrevMonth Function: Returns the start and end dates of the previous month.
• PrevMonthToDate Function: Returns the start and end dates of the previous month to the given date.
• PrevYearMtd Function: Returns the start and end dates up to a given date of the same month in the previous year.
• YearToDate Function: Returns the start of the year and end date from a given date.
• PrevYearToDate Function: Returns the start and end dates of the previous year for the given date.
• StartOfMonth Function: Returns the first day of the given date's month.

todo:

• currently in the process of adding calulated holiday functions

Usage

To use this library, import it in your Go application:

import "dates"

Then, you can call any of the functions or methods provided by the library. For example, to get the start and end dates of the last full week:

week := dates.NewWeek(time.Monday, time.Sunday)
start, end := week.LastFullWeek(time.Now())

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or create an issue to add new features or fix bugs.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License.