devdlabs / cal

Go (golang) calendar library for dealing with holidays and work days

cal/v2: Go (golang) calendar library for dealing with holidays and work days

This library augments the Go time package to provide easy handling of holidays and work days (business days).

Holiday instances are calculated from either builtin or user-created functions to support exact days, floating days such as the 3rd Monday of the month, yearly offsets such as the 100th day of the year, or more complex rules such as offsets from Easter. Holidays may provide separate actual and observed dates for cases where holidays are celebrated on an alternate day if they fall on a specific day of the week (usually weekends).

The Calendar type provides the basic functionality for creating a yearly calendar with holidays.

BusinessCalendar adds additional functionality for calculating workdays and hours worked.

Differences from v1

For v2, much of the functionality of this library was rewritten to address shortcomings of the v1 releases. This version provides the following benefits over v1:

• Holidays
  • Observation rules are tied to individual holidays rather than a per-calendar setting
  • Name, description, and observance type fields added
  • Starting, ending, and exception year options
  • Holiday definitions are separated into subpackages by ISO code (no longer necessary to bundle all holidays in the final binary)
• Calendar
  • Separation of business specific functionality into BusinessCalendar
  • Name and description fields added
  • Support for time.Location matching to ease use of multiple Calendars
• BusinessCalendar
  • Full support for working hours including dynamically determining work start and end times per day and the number of work hours between dates
  • Support for "overnight" working hours where a workday starts at night and ends in the morning

Example

Here is a simple usage example of a cron job that runs once per day:

package main

import (
	"time"

	"github.com/rickar/cal/v2"
	"github.com/rickar/cal/v2/us"
)

func main() {
	c := cal.NewBusinessCalendar()
	c.Name = "Bigco, Inc."
	c.Description = "Default company calendar"

	// add holidays that the business observes
	c.AddHoliday(
		us.NewYear,
		us.MemorialDay,
		us.IndependenceDay,
		us.LaborDay,
		us.ThanksgivingDay,
		us.ChristmasDay,
	)

	// change the default of a Mon - Fri, 9am-5pm work week
	c.SetWorkday(time.Saturday, true)
	c.SetWorkHours(8*time.Hour, 18*time.Hour+30*time.Minute)

	t := time.Now()

	// run different batch processing jobs based on the day

	if c.IsWorkday(t) {
		// create daily activity reports
	}

	if cal.IsWeekend(t) {
		// validate employee time submissions
	}

	if c.WorkdaysRemain(t) == 10 {
		// 10 business days before the end of month
		// send account statements to customers
	}

	if c.WorkdaysRemain(t) == 0 {
		// last business day of the month
		// execute auto billing transfers
	}

	// determine the number of working hours left in the current month
	nextMonth := cal.DayStart(cal.MonthStart(t.AddDate(0, 1, 0)))
	hoursLeft := c.WorkHoursInRange(t, nextMonth)

	// check if there are any tasks for this month that are in danger of missing their deadline
	pendingTasks := []struct{ pendingHours time.Duration }{{pendingHours: 32}} // assumed to be fetched from a DB or API
	for _, task := range pendingTasks {
		if hoursLeft < task.pendingHours {
			// send alert to management
		}
	}
}