I'm trying to get date and time like this 2014-06-22 22:00:22 GMT+2 What is the best way to do it?
I'm trying various variants. The closest was this
time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05 GMT+1")
And I get good result, except the GMT - it's wrong. I'v triyed to change the template like this and got results:
GMT+0 => GMT+0
GMT+1 => GMT+4
But I live in GMT+3 and expect that number. What am I doing wrong?
Per the documentation the time package supports hhmm, hh:mm, and hh formats; single-digit h offset is not directly supported:
Numeric time zone offsets format as follows:
-0700 ±hhmm
-07:00 ±hh:mm
-07 ±hh
Remember that the format string for time.Format is telling it how to render the parts of Time. It does not change anything about the Time, including its locale. If you want to render a time in a different time zone, use Time.In to get the time in a different time zone:
timeInGMTPlus3 := time.Now().In(time.FixedZone("some zone", int((3 * time.Hour).Seconds()))
For example, for Moscow, GMT+03,
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
// Your Local time zone
now := time.Now().Round(0)
fmt.Println(now.UTC())
fmt.Println(now)
t := now.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05 GMT-07")
fmt.Println(t)
// For example, use Moscow time zone (GMT+03)
fmt.Println()
moscow, err := time.LoadLocation("Europe/Moscow")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
now = time.Now().In(moscow)
fmt.Println(now.UTC())
fmt.Println(now)
t = now.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05 GMT-07")
fmt.Println(t)
}
Output:
2019-04-19 17:24:20.582630875 +0000 UTC
2019-04-19 13:24:20.582630875 -0400 EDT
2019-04-19 13:24:20 GMT-04
2019-04-19 17:24:20.582729015 +0000 UTC
2019-04-19 20:24:20.582729015 +0300 MSK
2019-04-19 20:24:20 GMT+03