2006-01-02 15:04:05

As a .NET developer, this felt... weird. So I'm saving it here as a note.

I had to use time formatting, and I had to do it like that:

time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")

Go uses this unique approach to time formatting. So instead of using placeholders like YYYY MM Go uses a specific reference date:

2006-01-02 15:04:05

Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006
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Can we use some other date?

NO!

Cheers 👯‍♀️