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Golang program to add given number of hours to the specified time

Here, we are going to learn how to add given number of hours to the specified time in Golang (Go Language)?
Submitted by Nidhi, on March 22, 2021 [Last updated : March 04, 2023]

Adding the hours to the specified time in Golang

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will create a time and then add some hours to the specified time using Add() function and print the updated date-time on the console screen.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to add given number of hours to a specified time is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

Golang code to add given number of hours to the specified time

// Golang program to add given number of hours
// to the specified time

package main

import "fmt"
import "time"

func main() {
	ttime := time.Date(2020, 2, 5, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)

	res := ttime.Add(time.Hour * 8)
	fmt.Println("Time after 8 hours is: ", res)
}

Output:

Time after 8 hours is:  2020-02-05 18:05:20 +0000 UTC

Explanation:

In the above program, we declare the package main. The main package is used to tell the Go language compiler that the package must be compiled and produced the executable file. Here, we imported the fmt and time packages to use time and fmt related functions.

In the main() function, we created a date-time object using Date() function. Then we added 8 hours to the created date-time object using Add() function. After that, we printed the updated date-time on the console screen.

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