How to Format Current Time in a yyyyMMddHHmmss Format in Go

Datetime is a type that encapsulates the attributes of a date and time at a certain point in time. Datetime can be found in the time package in Go.

The time package includes all of the functionality required for telling, measuring, and displaying the time. The time package also contains the fundamental techniques for formatting, parsing, displaying, and manipulating dates and times.

Time is any variable type or field in a struct that holds time as a value. Time is a unit of measurement that represents a moment in time with millisecond precision.

Format Current Time in a yyyyMMddHHmmss Format in Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	currentTime := time.Now()
	fmt.Printf("Current time is : %v\n", currentTime)
}

Output:

Current time is : 2023-11-16 08:37:19 +0000 UTC m=+0.000028927

The following is a basic example of RFC3339-compliant time formatting with the associated layout constant.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	current_time := time.Now()
	fmt.Println("Current time: ", current_time.Format(time.RFC3339))
}

Output:

Current time:  2023-11-16T08:37:19Z