Parsing and formatting date/time in Go

Go takes an interesting approach to parsing strings to time objects, and formatting time objects as strings. Instead of using codes like most languages to represent component parts of a date/time string representation—like %Y for a 4-digit year like “2011” or %b for an abbreviated month name like “Feb”—Go uses a mnemonic device: there is a standard time, which is: Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 (MST

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Go言語の日時フォーマット指定の面白さ