Parsing date string in Go

Question

I tried parsing the date string \"2014-09-12T11:45:26.371Z\" in Go.

Code

layout := \"2014-09-12T11:45:26.371Z\"
str :=         


        

Answer 1

This is rather late to the party, and not really saying anything that hasn't been already said in one form or another, mostly through links above, but I wanted to give a TL;DR recap to those with less attention span:

The date and time of the go format string is very important. It's how Go knows which field is which. They are generally 1-9 left to right as follows:

• January / Jan / january / jan / 01 / _1 (etc) are for month
• 02 / _2 are for day of month
• 15 / 03 / _3 / PM / P / pm /p are for hour & meridian (3pm)
• 04 / _4 are for minutes
• 05 / _5 are for seconds
• 2006 / 06 are for year
• -0700 / 07:00 / MST are for timezone
• .999999999 / .000000000 etc are for partial seconds (I think the distinction is if trailing zeros are removed)
• Mon / Monday are day of the week (which 01-02-2006 actually was),

So, Don't write "01-05-15" as your date format, unless you want "Month-Second-Hour"

(... again, this was basically a summary of above.)