time.Time flags

[lesovsky]

Hi,

Is there simple way to handle time flags? For example, I use the following flags in my cli:

./a.out --start="2018-09-08 12:00:00" --end="2018-09-09 12:00:00"

I have not found according functions in go doc, and use the following workaround: I save start/end values using StringVarP and then define layout and parse strings with time.Parse.

Does cobra provide functions for handling time flags?

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[vikramarsid]

@spf13 @bogem Any updates on this issue? I will be glad to open a PR for this feature, let me know what do you think. Thank you!

[johnSchnake]

Seems like there was positive feedback on this issue and it would be relatively straight forward to support a new flag type.

This would go into https://github.com/spf13/pflag though. I'd be happy to review a PR for that if you tag me. I think that you just need to provide the ability to define the flag and the format string you expect.

[donacarr]

Hi there... any update on this feature?

[max-frank]

@donacarr https://github.com/spf13/pflag/pull/348 has been ready to be merged for a while now, but still waiting for review.

CC: @johnSchnake

[mmontes11]

I think this would be an awesome addition to this fantastic library, any chance we can get a review here?:

• https://github.com/spf13/pflag/pull/348