Golang time.Time.Zone() function example

11th August 2015

package time

Golang time.Time.Zone() function usage example.

 package main

 import (
 "fmt"
 "time"
 )

 func main() {

 now := time.Now()

 fmt.Println("Now: ", now)

 // reduce the date format
 // remember NOT to use 2006-01-01 or 02-02 or same digit
 // for month and date. Will cause weird date result
 fmt.Println(now.Format("2006-01-02"))

 fmt.Println("Location: ", now.Location())

 // get the time zone name
 z, offset := now.Zone()

 fmt.Printf("Location(Time Zone) : %v and offset : %v \n", z, offset)
 }

Sample output :