How to convert date format in golang?

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Dany picture Dany · Apr 23, 2016 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I would like to convert date format from 2010-01-23 11:44:20 to Jan 23 '10 at 11:44 in golang. I tried few functions from time package but couldn't make it.

Could someone help me with this?

Answer

Joachim Isaksson picture Joachim Isaksson · Apr 23, 2016

You could use the time package's Parse and Format to convert it to the desired text format. Both take a reference time (2006-01-02 15:04:05) in the format you require as a parameter which makes the format fairly easy to understand.

dtstr1 := "2010-01-23 11:44:20"
dt,_ := time.Parse("2006-01-02 15:04:05", dtstr1)

dtstr2 := dt.Format("Jan 2 '06 at 15:04")

A playground to test with.

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