We often use time package in Golang to display or parse date time. It is so common that we may ignore some import things when use it.
- the first parameter of time.Parse, namely layout, must equal to 20060102 15:04:05, otherwise it will lead to some puzzling questions. So to be correct we may write the code like this,
time.Parse("20060102", date_str_val)
date, err := time.Parse("20060102 15:04:05", "20210908 11:12:34")
- the timezone can be set by time.LoadLocation("Asia/Shanghai"), in this way time.ParseInLocation can be called conviniently later by passing the third parameter to time.Local. In summary When processing time or date, we must pay attention to the timezone.
