Golang : Change date format to yyyy-mm-dd
Problem :
Your Golang program is producing date in long form that look like this :
2015-08-11 17:21:52.776537624 +0800 MYT
and you want to change the format to short form - yyyy-mm-dd
. How to do that?
Solution :
Use the time.Time.Format()
function. For example :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
now := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Before : ", 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("2006-01-01")) <--- WRONG
fmt.Println("After : ", now.Format("2006-01-02")) // <-- CORRECT
}
Sample output :
Before : 2015-08-11 17:29:07.626918059 +0800 MYT
After : 2015-08-11
See also : Golang : Date and Time formatting
By Adam Ng
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