Golang : Convert date format and separator yyyy-mm-dd to dd-mm-yyyy
Feeling bored today and just want to play around with date formats. It seems that Golang's time package does not have the formats for dd-mm-yyyy.
Below is an example code on how to change the American style date format to British/Commonwealth/European/yyyy-mm-dd style date formats. It also shows you how to change the day month year separator as well.
Here you go!
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
// mm-dd-yyyy for USA/American
fmt.Println("mm-dd-yyyy date format : ", now.Format("01-02-2006")) // <-- CORRECT
// change to British/Commonwealth/European countries date format
// from mm-dd-yyyy to dd-mm-yyyy
fmt.Println("dd-mm-yyyy date format : ", now.Format("02-01-2006"))
// play around with 01 and 02 and see how it goes...
fmt.Println("yyyy-mm-dd date format : ", now.Format("2006-01-02"))
fmt.Println("yyyy-dd-mm date format : ", now.Format("2006-02-01"))
// you can change the separator too!
fmt.Println("dd.mm.yyyy date format : ", now.Format("02.01.2006"))
fmt.Println("dd/mm/yyyy date format : ", now.Format("02/01/2006"))
}
Happy coding!
Sample output :
Before : 2015-08-28 13:59:53.975870721 +0800 SGT
mm-dd-yyyy date format : 08-28-2015
dd-mm-yyyy date format : 28-08-2015
yyyy-mm-dd date format : 2015-08-28
yyyy-dd-mm date format : 2015-28-08
dd.mm.yyyy date format : 28.08.2015
dd/mm/yyyy date format : 28/08/2015
Reference :
See also : Golang : Change date format to yyyy-mm-dd
By Adam Ng
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