> What’s especially maddening in it is that it is so US-centric, with month coming before day in these number patterns, Whether this particular bit of design i

> What’s especially maddening in it is that it is so US-centric, with month coming before day in these number patterns, Whether this particular bit of design is good or not, you'll certainly be hard pressed to find someone who has a reasonable argument in favor of the absurdity that is the Go date-time format string. > 2006-01-02 (aka 'yyyy-MM-dd') > January 02, 2006 (aka 'MMMM dd, yyyy') > Jan-06 (aka 'MMM-yy') > Monday (aka 'EEEE') It's insanity start to finish and it boggles the mind how it was ever accepted in the language spec.