Is there an easy way to stub out time.Now() globally during test?

Question

Part of our code is time sensitive and we need to able to reserve something and then release it in 30-60 seconds etc, which we can just do a time.Sleep(60 * time.Secon

Answer 1

Also if you need to just stub time.Now you can inject dependency as a function, e.g.

func moonPhase(now func() time.Time) {
  if now == nil {
    now = time.Now
  }

  // use now()...
}

// Then dependent code uses just
moonPhase(nil)

// And tests inject own version
stubNow := func() time.Time { return time.Unix(1515151515, 0) }
moonPhase(stubNow)

Granted all that is a bit ugly if you come from dynamic languages background (e.g. Ruby) :(