need time.Strftime

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by crquan:

I want to reopen Issue #444:   Implement strftime

I don't agree strftime is bad, it actually provides same way as date command, then it's
easier to write code as same as shell and C and Python, I hope this can be available in
Go as well, the date command exists in Unix for decades, the strftime in C library for
decades, why Go language not willing to provide the same convenience?

Shell:  date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'
Python: time.strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')
C:      strftime(buf, sizeof buf, '%Y%m%d-%H%M%S', tm)



there mentioned time.Format, but it is buggy actually if I tried to use layout like
this: (in Asia culture, we don't assume people know the the months' English name, so we
use all numbers)

        const layout = "20140714-030001"
        fmt.Println(time.Now().Format(layout))

it prints like 180730773-090007, what's the hell of that?

especially in logging functionality, I want to print current time in this format prepend
to every output line, I think the time.Format needs to guess what numbers mean in the
layout string every time, do you think is that efficient?


I want to know if there's nobody doing a time.Strftime in golang community ? (in such
case, I am willing to contribute one)

Or is it because you guys won't accept it into standard time package?
(in such case, what can I say?)

[bradfitz]

Comment 1:

Please don't re-open bugs that were already closed just because you disagree.
You're welcome to implement your own stftime or use one of the existing ones:
http://godoc.org/?q=strftime

Status changed to WorkingAsIntended.

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Comment 2 by crquan:

ok, so some of 3rd party implementations exist, but I am asking why don't you accept
strftime into standard time package? but accepted time.Format such a buggy and
inefficient function? what's the logic behind that?

[gopherbot]

Comment 3 by crquan:

time.Format might be only useful to the Western world, but I mean it's generally buggy
and useless and inefficient, why did you accept that?

[bradfitz]

Comment 4:

Labels changed: added restrict-addissuecomment-commit.

[bradfitz]

Comment 5:

I closed comments here like issue #444, which contains the answers to OP's confusion.
Please use golang-nuts@ when learning the language and standard library. Don't file bugs.

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Comment 6:

the layout string is wrong. please read the docs before saying something is broken.
thanks.
http://play.golang.org/p/iQi7JZZ40j