Comparing two dates without taking time into account

Question

I have two dates like this, I would like to compare only the dates, ignoring the time. Currently I have this:

package main

import (
    "time"
    //"fmt"
)

func main() {
    a, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2017-02-01T12:00:00+00:00")
    b, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2017-02-11T14:30:00+00:00")

    x := b.Sub(a)

    println(int(x.Hours()))
}

Which prints 242. That is correct, but what I actually want to do is compare the dates like this:

    a, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00")
    b, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2017-02-11T00:00:00+00:00")

Notice: minutes/hours/seconds have been set to zero - the diff will now be 240 hours.

I couldn't really figure out how to do this, is there a time.SetTime(0, 0, 0) function in Go that I missed or what's the canonical way to reset the time for a date?

Comparing two dates without taking time into account

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