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muxxa on May 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parsing and formatting date/time in Go

I've never come across this way of laying out the date:

    "01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700"

What about correlating the mnemonic digits to period sizes:

    "06/05 03:02:01PM '07 -0400"

(with timezone offset coming between hours and days)

This would correspond to iso:

    "2007-06-05T03:02:01.0"

Scaevolus on May 20, 2011 [–]

I agree, numbering it in order of period sizes would be easier than remembering the arrangement of the canonical form, especially for international users.

(Also, it would be "2007-06-05T15:02:01.0")

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