nicolemon's solution to Gigasecond on the Go track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds.

A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.

Running the tests

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Source

Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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cases_test.go

package gigasecond

// Source: exercism/problem-specifications
// Commit: 5506bac gigasecond: Apply new "input" policy
// Problem Specifications Version: 1.1.0

// Add one gigasecond to the input.
var addCases = []struct {
	description string
	in          string
	want        string
}{
	{
		"date only specification of time",
		"2011-04-25",
		"2043-01-01T01:46:40",
	},
	{
		"second test for date only specification of time",
		"1977-06-13",
		"2009-02-19T01:46:40",
	},
	{
		"third test for date only specification of time",
		"1959-07-19",
		"1991-03-27T01:46:40",
	},
	{
		"full time specified",
		"2015-01-24T22:00:00",
		"2046-10-02T23:46:40",
	},
	{
		"full time with day roll-over",
		"2015-01-24T23:59:59",
		"2046-10-03T01:46:39",
	},
}

gigasecond_test.go

package gigasecond

// Write a function AddGigasecond that works with time.Time.

import (
	"os"
	"testing"
	"time"
)

// date formats used in test data
const (
	fmtD  = "2006-01-02"
	fmtDT = "2006-01-02T15:04:05"
)

func TestAddGigasecond(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tc := range addCases {
		in := parse(tc.in, t)
		want := parse(tc.want, t)
		got := AddGigasecond(in)
		if !got.Equal(want) {
			t.Fatalf(`FAIL: %s
AddGigasecond(%s)
   = %s
want %s`, tc.description, in, got, want)
		}
		t.Log("PASS:", tc.description)
	}
	t.Log("Tested", len(addCases), "cases.")
}

func parse(s string, t *testing.T) time.Time {
	tt, err := time.Parse(fmtDT, s) // try full date time format first
	if err != nil {
		tt, err = time.Parse(fmtD, s) // also allow just date
	}
	if err != nil {
		// can't run tests if input won't parse.  if this seems to be a
		// development or ci environment, raise an error.  if this condition
		// makes it to the solver though, ask for a bug report.
		_, statErr := os.Stat("example_gen.go")
		if statErr == nil || os.Getenv("TRAVIS_GO_VERSION") > "" {
			t.Fatal(err)
		} else {
			t.Log(err)
			t.Skip("(This is not your fault, and is unexpected.  " +
				"Please file an issue at https://github.com/exercism/go.)")
		}
	}
	return tt
}

func BenchmarkAddGigasecond(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		AddGigasecond(time.Time{})
	}
}

// Functions to calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds
package gigasecond
import "time"

// Given time.Time t, add 10^9 seconds and return the resulting date
func AddGigasecond(t time.Time) time.Time {
	result := t.Add(time.Second * 1000000000)
	return result
}

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