# jinzhu/now

Now is a time toolkit for golang

Repository: https://github.com/jinzhu/now
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/now
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, golang, time
Last push: 2026-02-02T16:34:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 65, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4671, "days_push": 212, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4700, forks 240 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:57.188317+00:00)

## What it is
Now is a Go library providing a time toolkit for computing time boundaries (beginning/end of minute, day, week, month, quarter, year) and parsing time strings. It supports configurable week start days, time zones, and custom parse formats.

## Use cases
- get the beginning of the current month in go
- parse a date string into a time.Time
- calculate end of quarter timestamps
- find next monday or sunday in golang
- compute start of week with monday as first day
- truncate a timestamp to the start of the day

## When to choose
- you need convenient boundary calculations (beginning/end of periods) in Go
- you want flexible time string parsing with custom formats
- you need configurable week start day or timezone-aware calculations

## When to avoid
- you only need basic time arithmetic already covered by the standard library
- you need complex calendar or recurring-event scheduling features
- you are not working in Go

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: date-time, parser
- domain: developer-tools, backend
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: time-toolkit, time-parsing, time-boundaries

## Member repositories
- jinzhu/now (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.188317+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:13.259060+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jinzhu/now (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.188317+00:00, sha 5f851104db32)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.