How to compare two dates in Golang

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How to compare two dates in Golang

// Golang program to compare two dates

package main

import "fmt"
import "time"

func main() {
	date1 := time.Date(2021, 3, 20, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)
	date2 := time.Date(2021, 3, 20, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)
	date3 := time.Date(2020, 3, 20, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)

	if date1 == date2 {
		fmt.Println("date1 is equal to date2")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("date1 is not equal to date2")
	}

	if date1 == date3 {
		fmt.Println("date1 is equal to date3")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("date1 is not equal to date3")
	}
}

In the above program, we imported the fmt package, which contains the files of the fmt package, and then we can use a function related to the fmt package. Here, we created three objects of time structure date1, date2, date3 initialized using Date() function. After that, we used the “==” operator to compare dates

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