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## Understanding Go's Time Format

DevFeed: [Understanding Go's Time Format](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/understanding-go-s-time-format-22196.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2022/12/understanding-go-time-format.html>)

Published: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [William Kennedy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/william-kennedy.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>)

Tags: [c-time-functions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-time-functions.md>), [display](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/display.md>), [format](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/format.md>), [formatting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/formatting.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [go-time-formatting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go-time-formatting.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [international-standards-organisation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/international-standards-organisation.md>), [iso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iso.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [pitfalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pitfalls.md>), [strftime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strftime.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>)

### AI overview

A video tutorial explains Go's unique time format specification, showing how to build intuition for time layouts, format and display the current time, and avoid common formatting pitfalls.

### Source excerpt

Introduction Most apps that work with time values eventually need to display time to a user. Go has a unique way of allowing you to specify how to display time values that is different from the C library function strftime. The strftime function tends to be the standard for languages and tooling to format time. Go developed its own format specification instead of using any existing format with the idea of being able to maintain a mental model for formatting time.