package values import ( "reflect" "time" ) var zeroTime time.Time var dateLayouts = []string{ // from the Go library time.ANSIC, // "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006" time.UnixDate, // "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 MST 2006" time.RubyDate, // "Mon Jan 02 15:04:05 -0700 2006" time.RFC822, // "02 Jan 06 15:04 MST" time.RFC822Z, // "02 Jan 06 15:04 -0700" // RFC822 with numeric zone time.RFC850, // "Monday, 02-Jan-06 15:04:05 MST" time.RFC1123, // "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST" time.RFC1123Z, // "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" // RFC1123 with numeric zone time.RFC3339, // "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00" // ISO 8601 "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00", // this is also XML Schema "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z", "2006-01-02", "20060102T150405Z", // from Ruby's Time.parse docs "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700", // "RFC822" -- but not really // From Jekyll docs "02 January 2006", // Jekyll long string "02 Jan 2006", // Jekyll short string // observed in the wild; plus some variants "2006-01-02 15:04:05 -07:00", "2006-01-02 15:04:05 -0700", "2006-01-02 15:04:05 MST", "2006-01-02 15:04:05", "2006-01-02 15:04", "January 2, 2006", "January 2 2006", "Jan 2, 2006", "Jan 2 2006", } // ParseDate tries a few heuristics to parse a date from a string func ParseDate(s string) (time.Time, error) { if s == "now" { return time.Now(), nil } for _, layout := range dateLayouts { t, err := time.ParseInLocation(layout, s, time.Local) if err == nil { return t, nil } } return zeroTime, conversionError("", s, reflect.TypeOf(zeroTime)) }