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A faster date format tool based on yyyyMMdd layout for Golang.

It is designed to solve this problem Golang/go issue: magic number datetime formatting.

Usage

// Format time with general layout
s := datefmt.Format(time.Now(), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

// Parse time with general layout
t, err := datefmt.Parse("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", "2022-06-20 09:49:10")

// Parse time in location with general layout
t, err := datefmt.ParseInLocation("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", "2022-06-20 09:49:10", time.UTC)

Formatting with pre-created layout for better performance:

var CommonTimeFormat = datefmt.NewLayout("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

CommonTimeFormat.Format(time.Now())

Convert general layout to go-style layout:

l := datefmt.GoLayout("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") // l = '2006-01-02 15:04:05'

Pattern

The format of the layout is similar to the time and date pattern defined in Java.

Support for the standard is as follows:

letter description example datefmt std format std parse
G Era designator AD
y Year 1996; 96 1 1
Y Week year 2009; 09 2 2
M Month in year July; Jul; 07
w Week in year 27
W Week in month 2
D Day in year 189
d Day in month 10
F Day of week in month 2
E Day name in week Tuesday; Tue
u Day number of week (1-7) 1
a Am/pm marker PM
H Hour in day (0-23) 0
k Hour in day (1-24) 24
K Hour in am/pm (0-11) 0
h Hour in am/pm (1-12) 12
m Minute in hour 30
s Second in minute 55
S Millisecond 978
z Time zone PST; GMT-08:00
Z Time zone -800
X Time zone -08; -0800; -08:00
' Text delimiter 'o''clock' 3 3

Performance

datefmt performs quite well and in most cases has better performance than the standard library.

Here is the benchmark results for common formatting compared with std, jodaTime and GoDateFormat.

BenchmarkFormat/datefmt______yyyy-MM-dd_HH:mm:ss-8           7447152        161.7 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/std.Format___yyyy-MM-dd_HH:mm:ss-8           6057490        214.9 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/jodaTime_____yyyy-MM-dd_HH:mm:ss-8           1455223        817.3 ns/op      208 B/op       18 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/GoDateFormat_yyyy-MM-dd_HH:mm:ss-8           1495375        810.4 ns/op      168 B/op        7 allocs/op

BenchmarkFormat/datefmt______yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss_z-8       5913645        203.9 ns/op       32 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/std.Format___yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss_z-8       5850758        217.3 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/jodaTime_____yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss_z-8       1214950        999.5 ns/op      256 B/op       22 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/GoDateFormat_yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss_z-8       1296421        903.4 ns/op      208 B/op        8 allocs/op

BenchmarkFormat/datefmt______yyMMddHHmmssZ-8                 6011174        179.6 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/std.Format___yyMMddHHmmssZ-8                 6345073        192.5 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/jodaTime_____yyMMddHHmmssZ-8                 1683231        710.1 ns/op      136 B/op       12 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/GoDateFormat_yyMMddHHmmssZ-8                 1394109        869.9 ns/op      128 B/op        8 allocs/op

BenchmarkFormat/datefmt______EEE,_MMM_DDD,_''yy-8            6854894        174.7 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/std.Format___EEE,_MMM_DDD,_''yy-8            8224816        160.3 ns/op       24 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/jodaTime_____EEE,_MMM_DDD,_''yy-8            2169121        545.2 ns/op      112 B/op       14 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/GoDateFormat_EEE,_MMM_DDD,_''yy-8            2567779        468.8 ns/op       72 B/op        3 allocs/op

BenchmarkFormat/datefmt______h:mm_a-8                       13415570        86.86 ns/op        8 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/std.Format___h:mm_a-8                       10746708        112.0 ns/op        8 B/op        1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/jodaTime_____h:mm_a-8                        4197170        289.3 ns/op       32 B/op        6 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat/GoDateFormat_h:mm_a-8                        3587061        340.9 ns/op       16 B/op        2 allocs/op

PASS
ok   bench 34.733s

Footnotes

  1. Only support common placeholders in std format & parse, eg, yyyy and yy is valid, but yyy is not. Such as the others. 2

  2. 'Y' treated as 'y' in std format & parse. 2

  3. Only support text delimiter in layout convertion. 2

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