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clock [](https://drone.io/github.com/benbjohnson/clock/latest) [](https://coveralls.io/r/benbjohnson/clock?branch=master) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/benbjohnson/clock) 
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=====
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Clock is a small library for mocking time in Go. It provides an interface
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around the standard library's [`time`][time] package so that the application
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can use the realtime clock while tests can use the mock clock.
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[time]: http://golang.org/pkg/time/
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## Usage
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### Realtime Clock
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Your application can maintain a `Clock` variable that will allow realtime and
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mock clocks to be interchangable. For example, if you had an `Application` type:
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```go
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import "github.com/benbjohnson/clock"
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type Application struct {
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Clock clock.Clock
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}
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```
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You could initialize it to use the realtime clock like this:
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```go
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var app Application
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app.Clock = clock.New()
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...
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```
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Then all timers and time-related functionality should be performed from the
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`Clock` variable.
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### Mocking time
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In your tests, you will want to use a `Mock` clock:
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```go
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import (
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"testing"
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"github.com/benbjohnson/clock"
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)
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func TestApplication_DoSomething(t *testing.T) {
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mock := clock.NewMock()
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app := Application{Clock: mock}
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...
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}
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```
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Now that you've initialized your application to use the mock clock, you can
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adjust the time programmatically. The mock clock always starts from the Unix
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epoch (midnight, Jan 1, 1970 UTC).
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### Controlling time
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The mock clock provides the same functions that the standard library's `time`
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package provides. For example, to find the current time, you use the `Now()`
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function:
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```go
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mock := clock.NewMock()
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// Find the current time.
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mock.Now().UTC() // 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
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// Move the clock forward.
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mock.Add(2 * time.Hour)
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// Check the time again. It's 2 hours later!
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mock.Now().UTC() // 1970-01-01 02:00:00 +0000 UTC
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```
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Timers and Tickers are also controlled by this same mock clock. They will only
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execute when the clock is moved forward:
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```
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mock := clock.NewMock()
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count := 0
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// Kick off a timer to increment every 1 mock second.
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go func() {
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ticker := clock.Ticker(1 * time.Second)
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for {
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<-ticker.C
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count++
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}
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}()
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runtime.Gosched()
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// Move the clock forward 10 second.
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mock.Add(10 * time.Second)
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// This prints 10.
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fmt.Println(count)
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```
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