time.Time Round to Day
I believe the simplest is to create a new date as shown in this answer. However, if you wanna use time.Truncate, there is two distinct cases.
If you are working in UTC:
var testUtcTime = time.Date(2016, 4, 14, 21, 10, 27, 0, time.UTC)
// outputs 2016-04-14T00:00:00Z
fmt.Println(testUtcTime.Truncate(time.Hour * 24).Format(time.RFC3339))
If you are not, you need to convert back and forth to UTC
var testTime = time.Date(2016, 4, 14, 21, 10, 27, 0, time.FixedZone("my zone", -7*3600))
// this is wrong (outputs 2016-04-14T17:00:00-07:00)
fmt.Println(testTime.Truncate(time.Hour * 24).Format(time.RFC3339))
// this is correct (outputs 2016-04-14T00:00:00-07:00)
fmt.Println(testTime.Add(-7 * 3600 * time.Second).Truncate(time.Hour * 24).Add(7 * 3600 * time.Second).Format(time.RFC3339))
You can simply use duration 24 * time.Hour
to truncate time.
t := time.Date(2015, 4, 2, 0, 15, 30, 918273645, time.UTC)
d := 24 * time.Hour
t.Truncate(d)
https://play.golang.org/p/BTz7wjLTWX
in addition to sticky's answer to get the local Truncate
do like this
t := time.Date(2015, 4, 2, 0, 15, 30, 918273645, time.Local)
d := 24 * time.Hour
fmt.Println("in UTC", t.Truncate(d))
_, dif := t.Zone()
fmt.Println("in Local", t.Truncate(24 * time.Hour).Add(time.Second * time.Duration(-dif)))
The simple way to do this is to create new Time
using the previous one and only assigning the year month and day. It would look like this;
rounded := time.Date(toRound.Year(), toRound.Month(), toRound.Day(), 0, 0, 0, 0, toRound.Location())
here's a play example; https://play.golang.org/p/jnFuZxruKm