Retrieving time units from the date

The Time type also provides the API to retrieve time units from the instance. This means you are able to find out what day in a month or what hour in a day the instance represents. This recipe shows how to obtain such units.

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter04/recipe05.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Create the units.go file with the following content:

        package main

        import (
          "fmt"
          "time"
        )

        func main() {
          t := time.Date(2017, 11, 29, 21, 0, 0, 0, time.Local)
          fmt.Printf("Extracting units from: %v\n", t)

          dOfMonth := t.Day()
          weekDay := t.Weekday()
       ...