I'm working with some data from multiple sources and one of these sources is a Sage ERP system.
I am trying to reference two files in Sage in particular, an audit date and audit time (AUDTDATE
and AUDTTIME
).
I need to parse this and store it as a DATETIME in a Microsoft SQL Server database.
Currently, I am just trying to figure out the best way to parse this.
An example of what the data might look like is below:
+----------+----------+
| AUDTDATE | AUDTTIME |
+----------+----------+
| 20170228 | 5013756 |
+----------+----------+
AUDTDATE
is a yyyymmdd format and the AUDTTIME
is HHMMSS00.
So I tried the below as a test:
func main() {
value := "20170228 5013756"
layout := "20060102 15040500"
t, _ := time.Parse(layout, value)
fmt.Println(t)
}
This doesn't work, it just returns 0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
when run.
If I change the time to this 050137
and the layout to 150405
then this works fine:
func main() {
value := "20170228 050137"
layout := "20060102 150405"
t, _ := time.Parse(layout, value)
fmt.Println(t)
}
One way that I can think of to deal with this is to strip the milliseconds off from the end and then check the length and add a zero to the beginning if it needs one.
This seems like a pretty ugly solution and would involve doing something like this:
func main() {
date := "20170228"
timeString := "5013756"
value := date + prepareTime(timeString)
layout := "20060102150405"
t, _ := time.Parse(layout, value)
fmt.Println(t)
}
func prepareTime(time string) string {
if len(time) == 7 {
time = "0" + time
}
return time[:6]
}
Is there a way to do this without going through the above? Perhaps natively with the time package?