Get current time as formatted string in Go

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What s the best way to get the current timestamp in Go and convert to string  I need both date and time in eg  YYYYMMDDhhmmss format

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Use the time Now   and time Format   functions  as time LocalTime   doesn t exist anymore as of Go 1 0 3   t    time Now   fmt Println t Format  20060102150405      Online demo   with date fixed in the past in the playground  never mind

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All the other response are very miss-leading for somebody coming from google and looking for  timestamp in go   YYYYMMDDhhmmss is not a  timestamp    To get the  timestamp  of a date in go  number of seconds from january 1970   the correct function is  Unix    and it really return an integer

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Use the time Now   function and the time Format   method   t    time Now   fmt Println t Format  20060102150405      prints out 20110504111515  or at least it did a few minutes ago   I m on Eastern Daylight Time   There are several pre-defined time formats in the constants defined in the time package   You can use time Now   UTC   if you d rather have UTC than your local time zone

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For readability  best to use the RFC constants in the time package  me thinks   import  fmt   import  time   func main         fmt Println time Now   Format time RFC850

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To answer the exact question   import  github com golang protobuf ptypes   Timestamp      ptypes TimestampProto time Now

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As an echo to  Bactisme s response  the way one would go about retrieving the current timestamp  in milliseconds  for example  is   msec    time Now   UnixNano     1000000   Resource  https   gobyexample com epoch

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https   golang org src time format go specified  For parsing time 15 is used for Hours  04 is used for minutes  05 for seconds    For parsing Date 11  Jan  January is for months  02  Mon  Monday for Day of the month  2006 for year and of course MST for zone  But you can use this layout as well  which I find very simple   Mon Jan 2 15 04 05 MST 2006       const layout    Mon Jan 2 15 04 05 MST 2006      userTimeString     Fri Dec 6 13 05 05 CET 2019       t       time Parse layout  userTimeString      fmt Println  Server     t Format time RFC850         Server   Friday  06-Dec-19 13 05 05 CET      mumbai       time LoadLocation  Asia Kolkata       mumbaiTime    t In mumbai      fmt Println  Mumbai     mumbaiTime Format time RFC850         Mumbai   Friday  06-Dec-19 18 35 05 IST    DEMO

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Find more info in this post  Get current date and time in various format in golang  This is a taste of the different formats that you ll find in the previous post

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