Easy way to receive a string from day from time.Now()

Question

I'm trying to get the day as a string from a time.Now() instance.

now := time.Now() // .String() would give me the entire date as a string which I don't need
day := now.Day()) // is what I want but as a String.

So string(day) tells me "can not convert day to string".

For me now.Day().String() would be nice but there is no such method...

I could now try to take time.Now().String() and manipulate until the day is left over. But there should be a easier way to do it...

What is "day"? Day of week? Day of the month? Day in the year? — icza, Nov 23 '18 at 12:18
Possible duplicate of [Convert time.Time to string](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33119748/convert-time-time-to-string) — Shudipta Sharma, Nov 23 '18 at 16:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '18 at 12:18

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Use strconv to convert int to string

strconv.Itoa(day)

answered Nov 23 '18 at 12:18

KibGzr

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Satyajit Das · Answer 2 · 2018-11-23T18:53:33.513

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You can import and use strconv as KibGzr mentioned. Just to give a complete example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
    "strconv"
)

func main() {
    now := time.Now() 
    day := now.Day()
    fmt.Printf("%T\n",(day))
    fmt.Println(strconv.Itoa(day))
    dayString := strconv.Itoa(day)
    fmt.Printf("%T",(dayString))
}

https://play.golang.org/p/Mqs24FJhCoi

edited Nov 23 '18 at 18:53

answered Nov 23 '18 at 12:59

Satyajit Das

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Easy way to receive a string from day from time.Now()

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