{"id":1225,"date":"2020-01-25T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golangbyexamples.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:48:36","slug":"time-date-formatting-in-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golangbyexamples.com\/time-date-formatting-in-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Time\/Date Formatting in Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If you have worked with time\/date formatting in other languages you might have noticed that the other languages use special placeholders for time\/date formatting. For eg ruby language uses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>%d for day<\/li><li>%Y for year<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In Golang date and time format placeholders look like date and time only. Refer to below placeholder table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Type<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Placeholder<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day<\/td><td><strong>2<\/strong> or <strong>02<\/strong> or <strong>_2<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day of Week<\/td><td><strong>Monday<\/strong> or <strong>Mon<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Month<\/td><td><strong>01<\/strong> or <strong>1<\/strong> or <strong>Jan<\/strong> or <strong>January<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Year<\/td><td><strong>2006<\/strong> or <strong>06<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hour<\/td><td><strong>03<\/strong> or <strong>3 <\/strong>or <strong>15<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Minutes<\/td><td><strong>04<\/strong> or <strong>4<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Seconds<\/td><td><strong>05<\/strong> or <strong>5<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MilliSeconds\u00a0 (ms)<\/td><td><strong>.000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>\/\/Trailing zero will be included<br>or<strong> .999 <\/strong>\u00a0 \/\/Trailing zero will be omitted<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Micro Seconds (\u03bcs)<\/td><td><strong>.000000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\/\/Trailing zero will be included<br>or <strong>.999999<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \/\/Trailing zero will be omitted<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nano Seconds (ns)<\/td><td><strong>.000000000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>\/\/Trailing zero will be included<br>or <strong>.999999999 <\/strong> \/\/Trailing zero will be omitted<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>am\/pm<\/td><td><strong>PM<\/strong> or <strong>pm<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Timezone<\/td><td><strong>MST<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Timezone offset<\/td><td><strong> Z0700 <\/strong>or<strong> Z070000<\/strong> or <strong>Z07<\/strong> or <strong>Z07:00<\/strong> or <strong>Z07:00:00<\/strong>&nbsp; or <strong>-0700<\/strong> or&nbsp; <strong>-070000<\/strong> or <strong>-07<\/strong> or <strong>-07:00<\/strong> or <strong>-07:00:00<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is easy to remember the above placeholders when represented in sequence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Weekday-Month-Day-Hour-Min-Seconds-Year-Timezone <\/strong>will be <strong>Mon-01-02-03-04-05-06&#8211;07<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Let&#8217;s see some time format code examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-go\">package main\n\nimport (\n    \"fmt\"\n    \"time\"\n)\n\nfunc main() {\n    now := time.Now()\n    \n    \/\/Format YYYY-MM-DD\n    fmt.Printf(\"YYYY-MM-DD: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"2006-01-02\"))\n\n    \/\/Format YY-MM-DD\n    fmt.Printf(\"YY-MM-DD: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"06-01-02\"))\n\n    \/\/Format YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD\n    fmt.Printf(\"YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"2006-Jan-02\"))\n\n    \/\/Format HH:MM:SS\n    fmt.Printf(\"HH:MM:SS: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"03:04:05\"))\n\n    \/\/Format HH:MM:SS Millisecond\n    fmt.Printf(\"HH:MM:SS Millisecond: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"03:04:05 .999\"))\n\n    \/\/Format YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS\n    fmt.Printf(\"YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"2006-Jan-02 Monday 03:04:05\"))\n\n    \/\/Format YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS PM Timezone TimezoneOffset\n    fmt.Printf(\"YYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS PM Timezone TimezoneOffset: %s\\n\", now.Format(\"2006-Jan-02 Monday 03:04:05 PM MST -07:00\"))\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Output:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-go\">YYYY-MM-DD: 2020-01-25\nYY-MM-DD: 20-01-25\nYYYY-#{MonthName}-DD: 2020-Jan-25\nHH:MM:SS: 11:14:16\nHH:MM:SS Millisecond: 11:14:16 .213\nYYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS: 2020-Jan-25 Saturday 11:14:16\nYYYY-#{MonthName}-DD WeekDay HH:MM:SS PM Timezone TimezoneOffset: 2020-Jan-25 Saturday 11:14:16 PM IST +05:30<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have worked with time\/date formatting in other languages you might have noticed that the other languages use special placeholders for time\/date formatting. 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