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Go filename friendly RFC3339 inspired timestamps
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| // GetTimeStamp returns a timestamp in a file name friendly, version of the RFC3339 | |
| // format. The string produced by RFC3339 includes a couple colons ':' that are not | |
| // friendly to most filenames (unix and dos a like). The colons need to be escaped | |
| // if used in a filename, since they are useless, we'll rip em. | |
| func TimeStamp() string { | |
| ts := time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339) | |
| return strings.Replace(ts, ":", "", -1) // get rid of offensive colons | |
| } |
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Why not directly
time.Now().UTC().Format("20060102T150405Z")