Parsing date/time strings which are not 'standard' formats

Question

How do I parse non-standard date/time strings in Go. In example if I wanted to convert the string 10/15/1983 into a time.Time? The time.Parse

Answer 1

If you can't remember the Numbers in the specifying layout ("2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z"), you may use my simple date formatting library github.com/metakeule/fmtdate that uses MS Excel conventions, like Y,M,D,h and internally translates them to the number format:

package main

import (
    "github.com/metakeule/fmtdate"

    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    test, err := fmtdate.Parse("MM/DD/YYYY", "10/15/1983")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(test)
}