How to format timestamp in outgoing JSON

Question

I\'ve been playing with Go recently and it\'s awesome. The thing I can\'t seem to figure out (after looking through documentation and blog posts) is how to get the tim

Answer 1

Perhaps another way will be interesting for someone. I wanted to avoid using alias type for Time.

type Document struct {
    Name    string
    Content string
    Stamp   time.Time
    Author  string
}

func (d *Document) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
    type Alias Document
    return json.Marshal(&struct {
        *Alias
        Stamp string `json:"stamp"`
    }{
        Alias: (*Alias)(d),
        Stamp: d.Stamp.Format("Mon Jan _2"),
    })
}

Source: http://choly.ca/post/go-json-marshalling/