researching the origin of Go's time formatting system:
rob pike: "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.)"
https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/golang-nuts/c/GITiHhomLyE
rob pike: "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.)"
https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/golang-nuts/c/GITiHhomLyE
Comments
> It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting the numerical month before the day.
https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.23.6:src/time/format.go;l=25
thanks for researching, this is interesting!! :)
and agreed that the US time format is the most annoying to remember.
Some colleagues of mine thought this was some kind of early significant date for Go, so that's what spurred my research :)