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Steve P.
Steve P.

Reputation: 14699

Unix timestamp format conversion

A unix_timestamp of 1405936049 corresponds to: 2014-07-21 09:47:29. My goal is to derive the latter form from the timestamp.

After reading the format documentation, I came up with the following:

fmt.Println(time.Unix(1405936049, 0).Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05"))

which yields: 2014-07-21 02:47:29, which makes sense, since time.Unix(1405936049, 0) gives: 2014-07-21 02:47:29 -0700 PDT (to be clear, I want: 2014-07-21 09:47:29, the hour is incorrect).

I'm sure if I knew the correct terminology, I'd be able to find a solution in the documentation, but at this point, I'm uncertain how to tell the parser to account for -0700 or perhaps an alternative solution would be to use something besides time.Unix(), so that the resulting time would have already accounted for the hour difference? Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 243

Answers (2)

peterSO
peterSO

Reputation: 166549

You want the UTC time, not your local PDT time. For example,

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println(time.Unix(1405936049, 0).UTC().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05"))
}

Output:

2014-07-21 09:47:29

Upvotes: 3

julienc
julienc

Reputation: 20305

You have to use Location for this:

loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("Europe/Paris")
fmt.Println(time.Unix(1405936049, 0).In(loc).Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05"))

I think the location you want is "UTC", but I let you check (otherwise, here is a list of all available locations). The reason why in playground the format is already 09:47:29 is that playground does not include locations and uses UTC by default.

Upvotes: 0

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