Date Formats - Real Quick

For New Go Programmers.

Key point about formats: the correct component values (ex. 2006 for year, 15 for hour) must be used.

const Format1 = "Jan 2, 2006"
const Format2 = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
...

var date1 time.Time

input1 := "Apr 1, 2017"

date1, _ = time.Parse(Format1, input1)  // probably want to check for error

output1 := date1.AddDate(1, 1, 1).Format(Format2) // add 1 yr, 1 mo, 1 day & return formatted value

log.Println(output1) // prints 2018-05-02 00:00:00

I know there are many posts about dates, but this simple concept is often covered over with lots of other info.

It's Go time

Cool

Godoc time constants  lists the possibilities

Definitely the Go to for all the details.
Think when you first read it, you miss the point of how easy it is to work with date formats.