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Reputation: 459

Getting error while parsing timestamp string

I tried parsing

Tue Apr 07 2020 11:17:47 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

But got the following error

parsing time "Tue Apr 07 2020 11:17:47 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "Tue Apr 07 2020 11:17:47 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)" as "2006" 0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

From the frontend i can get timestamp in any format depending on the location or zone.But, in go lang i'm trying to parse any timestamp and convert it to UTC to store in ledger.What is the correct way to handle this case?

t, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, str)

if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println(t)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 473

Answers (1)

Inian
Inian

Reputation: 85895

The reference time used in the Go time layouts is the specific time, Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006. To define your own format, write down what the reference time would look like formatted your way.

Since MST is GMT-0700, use your ref string that way in the first argument.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {

    // Parsing your custom time format by using the reference time in your format.
    t1, err := time.Parse(
             "Mon Jan 02 2006 15:04:05 GMT-0700",
             "Tue Apr 07 2020 11:17:47 GMT+0530")

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(t1.UTC())
}

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Upvotes: 2

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