<p>What is the significance of the magic strings like "Mon Jan 02 15:04:05 -0700 2006" I don't understand why they don't use 'H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h'</p>
<p>i.e why 2006? I would understand 1970....</p>
<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>garaktailor: <pre><p>01 - Month</p>
<p>02 - Day</p>
<p>03 - Hour (15: 3pm)</p>
<p>04 - Minute</p>
<p>05 - Second</p>
<p>06 - Year (2006)</p>
<p>07 - Timezone Offset</p></pre>garaktailor: <pre><p>I personally like this much better than the traditional way to do date formatting. Without looking, what is the difference between 'yyyy' and 'YYYY' in java? Twitter used the wrong one and it <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810157" rel="nofollow">brought down their API a year ago</a>.</p></pre>nohoudini: <pre><p>For some guys in other geographic areas its not obvious that 01 is month, for me day would be more obvious :-) I find the time.Format bad as well but ok ;-) maybe I'm missing something here.</p></pre>qogemma: <pre><p>I just wish they'd put them in some kind of order. How are you supposed to remember that month comes before day and second comes before year?</p></pre>dsymonds: <pre><p>It was an unfortunate accident that is too late to change now. It matches the ANSI C ordering, FWIW.</p></pre>maidenelk: <pre><p>From the <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/blob/f4b4d2f4d9f574fe34b826bf0e6784956a247687/src/time/format.go" rel="nofollow">source</a>:</p>
<pre><code>// The reference time used in the layouts is the specific time:
// Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006
// which is Unix time 1136239445. Since MST is GMT-0700,
// the reference time can be thought of as
// 01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700
</code></pre></pre>twek: <pre><p>That's what I get for skimming. Thanks!</p></pre>andreynering: <pre><p><a href="http://andrey.nering.com.br/blog/2015/how-to-format-date-and-time-with-go-lang/" rel="nofollow">How to format Date and Time with Go Lang</a></p></pre>f2f: <pre><p>"oh my god, something is not as I expect it. five questionmarks. quick call the whaaaaambulance!"</p>
<p>(has the CoC been accepted here yet? i'm fully acknowledging that i'm breaking it :)</p></pre>twek: <pre><p>Ha. Calm down I was just over zealous in my curiosity. </p></pre>
