(Go) Compute Difference Between Two DateTime Strings

Demonstrates how to compute the difference between two datetime strings.

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    // Imagine we have these strings:

    t1 := "2022-11-14 15:45:38"
    t2 := "2022-11-16 17:23:41"

    // How many minutes are between the two?

    // First, we'd want load each date/time into a Chilkat CkDateTime object.
    // In this case, there are no CkDateTime methods that accept the above format.
    // However.. the CkDateTime's SetFromTimestamp will accept a date in the format "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ"

    // First modify the above dates to the timestamp format.
    sb1 := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    sb1.Append(t1)
    count := sb1.Replace(" ","T")
    sb1.Append("Z")

    sb2 := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    sb2.Append(t2)
    count = sb2.Replace(" ","T")
    sb2.Append("Z")

    // Load each into a CkDateTime
    dt1 := chilkat.NewCkDateTime()
    dt1.SetFromTimestamp(*sb1.GetAsString())
    // verify...
    fmt.Println(*dt1.GetAsTimestamp(false))

    dt2 := chilkat.NewCkDateTime()
    dt2.SetFromTimestamp(*sb2.GetAsString())
    // verify...
    fmt.Println(*dt2.GetAsTimestamp(false))

    // Get the difference in seconds
    diffSeconds := dt2.DiffSeconds(dt1)
    fmt.Println("Difference in seconds: ", diffSeconds)
    fmt.Println("Difference in minutes: ", diffSeconds / 60)

    sb1.DisposeStringBuilder()
    sb2.DisposeStringBuilder()
    dt1.DisposeCkDateTime()
    dt2.DisposeCkDateTime()