How to access global variables

How do I access a variable that was declared/init in my main.go in a different .go package/file? Keeps telling me that the variable is undefined (I know that global variables are bad but this is just to be used as a timestamp)

in main.go

var StartTime = time.Now()
func main(){...}

trying to access StartTime in a different .go file but keep getting StartTime undefined

Solution 1:

I would "inject" the starttime variable instead, otherwise you have a circular dependency between the packages.

main.go

var StartTime = time.Now()
func main() {
   otherPackage.StartTime = StartTime
}

otherpackage.go

var StartTime time.Time

Solution 2:

I create a file dif.go that contains your code:

package dif

import (
    "time"
)

var StartTime = time.Now()

Outside the folder I create my main.go, it is ok!

package main

import (
    dif "./dif"
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println(dif.StartTime)
}

Outputs:

2016-01-27 21:56:47.729019925 +0800 CST

Files directory structure:

folder
  main.go
  dif
    dif.go

It works!