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Jesse Brands
Jesse Brands

Reputation: 2877

Alternative Date/Time Libraries for Go

Are there any alternatives to Golang's time package? I can't come to grips with its clunky interface and strange way of doing things. The language overall is great, but this part of it just never clicked with me.

Anyone? A really good, thorough tutorial would work too (I have not managed to find one yet)

What I'm trying to do right now is a goroutine that updates only 10 times per second (or any variable interval that I set it to). I've not yet implemented it, as the package is not playing nice. Here's the psuedo code.

function GoRoutine(updatesPerSecond int) {
    interval = 1000msec / updatesPerSecond

    for {
        if enoughTimeHasPassed {
            doThings()
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1108

Answers (1)

OneOfOne
OneOfOne

Reputation: 99274

Did you read the documentation at http://golang.org/pkg/time/?

You need to use a Ticker:

func Loop(fps int) {
    t := time.NewTicker(time.Second / time.Duration(fps))
    for t := range t.C {
        fmt.Println("tick", t)
    }
}
func main() {
    go Loop(60)
    time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
}

then use it like go Loop(60).

Upvotes: 7

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