I believe it's unique. I thought of it one day while walking home. It is
inspired by the way Cobol picture clauses represent number formats. (That
said, I've never programmed in Cobol.)

-rob


On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:51 AM Ayan George <a...@ayan.net> wrote:

>
> I'm really impressed by the simplicity of Go's time formatting and parsing
> mechanisms -- particularly when compared with strftim().
>
> Does anyone know the origin or history of it?  Is there a precedent for
> using reference layouts that include string like 2006, January, etc.?
>
> Do other languages provide something similar or is this completely unique
> to Go?
>
> Can someone point me to or describe the history of Go's time formatting
> method?
>
> -ayan
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