Go time.Parse() getting “month out of range” error

Question

I'm new to Go and I was parsing a nginx time format string. You can check my code here:

package main

import (
 "time"
 "log"
 "fmt"
)

func main(){
 //nginx time format
 nginx_time :="03/Apr/2017:08:29:05 +0800"
 t,err:=time.Parse("02/Jan/2016:15:04:05 MST",nginx_time)

 if err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err)
 }

 fmt.Println(t.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05"))
}

I received the following error:

GOROOT=/usr/local/go
GOPATH=/usr/local/share/go:/Users/sinopex/goroot:/Users/sinopex/goroot
/usr/local/go/bin/go build -o "/private/var/folders/5b/yf1f_9lj06bfvqvcq2h9myph0000gn/T/Build 1.go and rungo" /Users/sinopex/goroot/src/github.com/sinopex/golang/example/test/1.go
"/private/var/folders/5b/yf1f_9lj06bfvqvcq2h9myph0000gn/T/Build 1.go and rungo"
2017/04/03 12:17:12 parsing time "03/Apr/2017:08:29:05 +0800": month out of range
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Process finished with exit code 1

Any ideas on what I am doing incorrectly?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Your parsing format does not match the reference format and the input format in 2 places:

1. The year in the reference format should be 2006

2. The timezone offset is to be specified by numbers, not by timezone name: -0700

So:

t, err := time.Parse("02/Jan/2006:15:04:05 -0700", nginx_time)

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