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mellow oxide Nov 3, 2024, 3:13 PM

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what is the motivation behind go not using timestamp formats

fallen wyvern Nov 3, 2024, 3:18 PM

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?

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Wdym timestamp format

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Unix ts, iso8601?

mellow oxide Nov 3, 2024, 3:29 PM

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yeah

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i saw that instead of YYYY-MM-dd you need to use some sort of dates

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to parse strings to timestamps

fallen wyvern Nov 3, 2024, 3:33 PM

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Where

mellow oxide Nov 3, 2024, 3:33 PM

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https://yourbasic.org/golang/format-parse-string-time-date-example/

Format a time or date [complete guide]

CODE EXAMPLE To format or parse a time in Go, you format a special layout parameter (Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006) the same way as the time should be formatted.

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the layout to use in go seems to be to use expected dates format than numbers

junior saffron Nov 3, 2024, 4:19 PM

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go’s decision there is indeed arguable, I think there are libs to use the more usual time formats strings

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