Get current time as formatted string in Go?

Question

What\'s the best way to get the current timestamp in Go and convert to string? I need both date and time in eg. YYYYMMDDhhmmss format.

Answer 1

All the other response are very miss-leading for somebody coming from google and looking for "timestamp in go"! YYYYMMDDhhmmss is not a "timestamp".

To get the "timestamp" of a date in go (number of seconds from january 1970), the correct function is .Unix(), and it really return an integer