Golang program to check two dates are equal or not

Program/Source Code:

The source code to check whether two given dates are equal or not is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Golang program to check whether
// two given dates are equal or not

package main

import "fmt"
import "time"

func main() {
	date1 := time.Date(2020, 2, 5, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)
	date2 := time.Date(2020, 2, 5, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)
	date3 := time.Date(2020, 2, 7, 10, 5, 20, 0, time.UTC)

	if date1.Equal(date2) == true {
		fmt.Println("date1 and date2 are equal")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("date1 and date2 are not equal")
	}

	if date1.Equal(date3) == true {
		fmt.Println("date1 and date3 are equal")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("date1 and date3 are not equal")
	}
}

Output:

date1 and date2 are equal
date1 and date3 are not equal

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 three date-time object using Date() function. Then we compare date-time objects using Equal() function. The Equal() function returns Boolean value. If date objects are equal then Equal() function returns true otherwise it returns false.