How to convert date to different formats?

Question

I would like to convert date format from 2010-01-23 11:44:20 to Jan 23 '10 at 11:44 in Go. I tried few functions from time package but couldn't make it.

Could someone help me with this?

Solution

You could use the time package's Parse and Format to convert it to the desired text format. Both take a reference time (2006-01-02 15:04:05) in the format you require as a parameter which makes the format fairly easy to understand.

dtstr1 := "2010-01-23 11:44:20"
dt,_ := time.Parse("2006-01-02 15:04:05", dtstr1)

dtstr2 := dt.Format("Jan 2 '06 at 15:04")

A playground to test with.