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Time

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• go has std lib package time which use to handle date and time.
• to format time string you can use time.Format("") and mention format of string like below →

  // Day of the month: "2" "_2" "02" 
  // Day of the week: "Mon" "Monday"
  // Month: "Jan" "January" "01" "1"
  // Year: "2006" "06"
  // Day of the year: "__2" "002"
  // Hour: "15" "3" "03" (PM or AM)
  // Minute: "04"
  // Second: "05"
  // Miliseconds: "05"
  // AM/PM mark: "PM"
  // TimeZone: "MST" "-0700"
  fmt.Println(time.Now().Format("2006 Jan 02 03:04 PM"))
  fmt.Println(time.Now().Format("02-01-2006 15:04:05 MST"))
  fmt.Println(time.Now().Format("02-01-2006T15:04:05TZ-0700"))
  
  // or you can use rfc standard
  fmt.Println(time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339))
  
  // output
  // 2022 Aug 22 01:43 PM
  

• parsing the datetime string into object

  // converting time string to Time object
  parsedTime, err := time.Parse("02/01/2006 15:04", "06/02/1997 09:15")
  if err != nil {
      fmt.Println(err)
  }
  fmt.Println(parsedTime.Format("02 Jan 2006 09:15PM"))
  //output
  // 06 Feb 1997 09:09AM