Parsing Dynamic Time Format in Go

Question

I'm working with an external API that will sometimes shorten the returned timestamp if the last values are zero.

layout := "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000"
opened, err := time.Parse(layout, externallyFormattedTimestamp)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("something went wrong parsing the timestamp")
    fmt.Println(err.Error())
}

If the returned externallyFormattedTimestamp is 2018-11-05T06:19:59.827, this will parse without issue.

But if the time returned ends with zeros, it'll be shortened like 2018-11-05T06:19:59.8 instead of 2018-11-05T06:19:59.800, and break. Do I need to manually append zeros to the string before parsing, or is there something I missed built into Go that will handle this for me?

ssemilla · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-05 07:24:14Z

1

Use this layout instead: 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999

answered Nov 5, 2018 at 7:24

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