gobyexample/examples/time-formatting-parsing/time-formatting-parsing.go
Will Leinweber c214c51286 Be explicit about time parsing
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// Go supports time formatting and parsing via
// pattern-based layouts.
package main
import "fmt"
import "time"
func main() {
p := fmt.Println
// Here's a basic example of formatting a time
// according to RFC3339.
t := time.Now()
p(t.Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00"))
// `Format` uses an example-based layout approach; it
// takes a formatted version of the reference time
// `Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006` to determine the
// general pattern with which to format the given
// time. The examples must be exactly as shown: only
// `2006` for the year, only `15` for the hour, only
// `Mon` for the day of week, and so on. Here are a
// few more examples of time formatting.
p(t.Format("3:04PM"))
p(t.Format("Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006"))
p(t.Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999-07:00"))
// For purely numeric representations you can also
// use standard string formatting with the extracted
// components of the time value.
fmt.Printf("%d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02d-00:00\n",
t.Year(), t.Month(), t.Day(),
t.Hour(), t.Minute(), t.Second())
// Time parsing uses the same example-based approach
// as `Format`ing. These examples parse times rendered
// with some of the layouts used above.
withNanos := "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999-07:00"
t1, e := time.Parse(
withNanos,
"2012-11-01T22:08:41.117442+00:00")
p(t1)
kitchen := "3:04PM"
t2, e := time.Parse(kitchen, "8:41PM")
p(t2)
// `Parse` will return an error on malformed input
// explaining the parsing problem.
ansic := "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006"
_, e = time.Parse(ansic, "8:41PM")
p(e)
// There are several predefined formats that you can
// use for both formatting and parsing.
p(t.Format(time.Kitchen))
}