In Go, I am confused as to the behavior of time.Parse()
I observe when parsing date strings to time.Time
.
In the event that a given time string's milliseconds are equal to exactly "000", e.g. "2017-01-02T01:02:03.000Z", time.Parse()
will truncate the "000".
It would seem preferable to include, as opposed to omit this for consistency in logging and other use cases.
Is this the expected behavior? If so, why?
Bonus: How do we retain the "000"?
package main
import (
"log"
"time"
)
func main() {
const (
ISO_8601 = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999Z"
)
tMap := map[string]string{
"t00": "2017-01-02T01:02:03.000Z",
"t01": "2017-01-02T01:02:03.000Z",
"t02": "2017-01-02T01:02:03.456Z",
"t03": "2017-01-03T01:02:03.123Z",
"t04": "2013-10-04T01:02:03.456Z",
"t05": "2012-02-02T01:02:03.321Z",
"t06": "2011-03-07T01:02:03.849Z",
}
for _, v := range tMap {
t, err := time.Parse(ISO_8601, v)
logFatal("0H N03Z!!1", err)
// Dude where's my 000?
log.Printf("Key: %s | lenTimeString: %d | Val: %s
", t.String(), len(t.String()), t)
}
}
func logFatal(hint string, e error) {
if e != nil {
log.Fatal(hint, e)
}
}
Output:
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t05 | lenTimeString: 33 | timeString: 2012-02-02 01:02:03.321 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t06 | lenTimeString: 33 | timeString: 2011-03-07 01:02:03.849 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t00 | lenTimeString: 29 | timeString: 2017-01-02 01:02:03 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t01 | lenTimeString: 29 | timeString: 2017-01-02 01:02:03 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t02 | lenTimeString: 33 | timeString: 2017-01-02 01:02:03.456 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t03 | lenTimeString: 33 | timeString: 2017-01-03 01:02:03.123 +0000 UTC
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Key: t04 | lenTimeString: 33 | timeString: 2013-10-04 01:02:03.456 +0000 UTC
Edit: Here's a simplified solution with the kind help of @zerkms
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
p := fmt.Println
const (
ISO_8601 = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z"
ISO_8601_dropmilli = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999Z"
)
t := time.Date(2017, time.October, 31, 15, 16, 17, 000000000, time.Local)
p(t.Format(ISO_8601))
p(t.Format(ISO_8601_dropmilli))
}
Output:
2017-10-31T15:16:17.000Z
2017-10-31T15:16:17Z