time_iso

A time formatting module for golang with iso 8601 in mind.

Motivation

In order to format time in golang you have to give a layout defined by a specific time, e.g.

now := time.Now()
now.Format("Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST")

And yeah, it has to be January second, 2006 at 23:04:05 UTC (but in MST)

Usage / Example

To do the same thing in the Motivation we'll do:

now := time_iso.Time{time.Now()} // or time_iso.Now()
now.Format("DDD, DD MMM YYYY hh:mm:ss ZZZ")

Formats

• DD: A two-digit day of that month, 01 through 31
• DDD: A three-letter abbreviation for day of the week, e.g. Fri
• DDDD: A day of the week spelled out in full, e.g. Friday
• MM: A two-digit month of the year, 01 through 12
• MMM: A three-letter abbreviation for month, e.g. Mar
• YY: A two-digit year, e.g. 21
• YYYY: A four-digit year, 0000 through 9999
• Z: The zone designator for the zero UTC offset in the form ±[hh][mm]
• ZZZ: The zone designator name, e.g. MST
• _D: One-digit day of the month for days below 10, e.g. _2
• hh: A zero-padded hour between 00 and 23
• mm: A zero-padded minute between 00 and 59
• ss: A zero-padded second between 00 and 60 (where 60 is only used to denote an added leap second
• sss: A zero-padded millisecond between 000 and 999