What's a good way of getting the timestamp for, say, the Monday 00:00:00 for the fifth week of 2010? Essentially I'm looking for the inverse function to ISOweek in the time package. I can't seem to find a way to achieve that. Parse() doesn't read week, and simply counting how many "7 days" there have been since the first day of the year/month doesn't really get me what I need.
Thanks a lot in advance! Bill
I don't see why
simply counting how many "7 days" there have been since the first day of the year/month doesn't really get me what I need
Here is my attempt:
func firstDayOfISOWeek(year int, week int, timezone *time.Location) time.Time {
date := time.Date(year, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, timezone)
isoYear, isoWeek := date.ISOWeek()
for date.Weekday() != time.Monday { // iterate back to Monday
date = date.AddDate(0, 0, -1)
isoYear, isoWeek = date.ISOWeek()
}
for isoYear < year { // iterate forward to the first day of the first week
date = date.AddDate(0, 0, 1)
isoYear, isoWeek = date.ISOWeek()
}
for isoWeek < week { // iterate forward to the first day of the given week
date = date.AddDate(0, 0, 1)
isoYear, isoWeek = date.ISOWeek()
}
return date
}
Here is working example with sanity check: http://play.golang.org/p/UVFNFcpaoI
The code is easy to understand, there is no year/month/day arithmetic, just simple iteration. The runtime complexity is O(n), but given that n is always less than 400 - it's actually not a problem at all.
It should not have problems with daylight saving, leap years and other tricky date problems if golang date.AddDate is implemented correctly.
P.S. Funny fact :) First day of week 1 of year 2008 is 2007-12-31. And this is correct, you can check in the calendar.
Shameless self-promotion, but I just released lib for working with weeks in Go: https://github.com/grsmv/goweek
func GetStartDayOfWeek(tm time.Time) time.Time { //get monday 00:00:00
weekday := time.Duration(tm.Weekday())
if weekday == 0 {
weekday = 7
}
year, month, day := t.Date()
currentZeroDay:= time.Date(year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local)
return currentZeroDay.Add(-1 * (weekday - 1) * 24 * time.Hour)
}
I implemented yet another simple Go package for exactly this purpose:
https://github.com/snabb/isoweek
Example usage:
st := isoweek.StartTime(1985, 1, time.UTC)
fmt.Println(st)
// Output:
// 1984-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
I did not like the method in the accepted answer because it iterates backwards and forwards which is ridiculous.
I also did not like goweek package in another answer as it seems overly complicated and the API is very strange (why variadic arguments? etc).