Time Formatting and Parsing Challenge in Golang

Introduction

This challenge focuses on time formatting and parsing in Golang. Golang provides pattern-based layouts for time formatting and parsing.

Skills Graph

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Time Formatting and Parsing

The problem is to format and parse time in Golang using the provided layouts.

Requirements

Use the time package to format and parse time.
Use the time.RFC3339 layout to format and parse time.
Use the Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 reference time to show the pattern with which to format/parse a given time/string.
Use the Parse function to parse time.
Use the Format function to format time.
Use the fmt.Println function to print the formatted time.
Use the fmt.Printf function to print the formatted time with extracted components.

Example

$ go run time-formatting-parsing.go
2014-04-15T18:00:15-07:00
2012-11-01 22:08:41 +0000 +0000
6:00PM
Tue Apr 15 18:00:15 2014
2014-04-15T18:00:15.161182-07:00
0000-01-01 20:41:00 +0000 UTC
2014-04-15T18:00:15-00:00
parsing time "8:41PM" as "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006": ...

Summary

In this challenge, we learned how to format and parse time in Golang using the time package. We used the time.RFC3339 layout to format and parse time and the Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 reference time to show the pattern with which to format/parse a given time/string. We also used the Parse and Format functions to parse and format time, respectively.

Time Formatting and Parsing | Challenge