Golang XML Unmarshal and time.Time fields

Question

I have XML data I am retrieving via a REST API that I am unmarshal-ing into a GO struct. One of the fields is a date field, however the date format returned by the API does not

Answer 1

const shortForm = "20060102" // yyyymmdd date format

It is unreadable. But it is right in Go. You can read the source in http://golang.org/src/time/format.go