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to Gigasecond in the Clojure Track

Published at Jan 07 2021 · 0 comments
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Solution

Given a moment, determine the moment that would be after a gigasecond has passed.

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

Source

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

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gigasecond_test.clj

(ns gigasecond-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer [deftest is]]
            gigasecond))

(deftest from-apr-25-2011
  (is (= [2043 1 1] (gigasecond/from 2011 4 25))))

(deftest from-jun-13-1977
  (is (= [2009 2 19] (gigasecond/from 1977 6 13))))

(deftest from-jul-19-1959
  (is (= [1991 3 27] (gigasecond/from 1959 7 19))))

;; customize this to test your birthday and find your gigasecond date:
;; (deftest your-birthday
;;   (is (= [year2 month2 day2] (gigasecond/from year1 month1 day1))))
(ns gigasecond
  (:import [java.time LocalDate]))

(defn from [y m d]
  (-> (LocalDate/of y m d)
      (.plusDays (/ 1E9 60 60 24))
      (#(vector (.getYear %) (.getMonthValue %) (.getDayOfMonth %)))))

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