在Golang中解析时间

Question

I'm trying to create a Time struct based on some input called dateAdded. My code is like this:

dateAdded := "November 25, 2016"
layout := "September 9, 2016"
t, err := time.Parse(layout, dateAdded)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(t)
}

And I get the following error: parsing time "November 25, 2016" as "September 9, 2016": cannot parse "November 25, 2016" as "September 9, "

I assume the Parse function cannot parse every layout, but I'm curios what's the usual way of reading dates and parse them into time objects.

Answer 1

Your layout date is wrong. Should be "January 2, 2006". As the specs say:

The layout defines the format by showing how the reference time, defined to be Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006 would be interpreted if it were the value