Add an interface to strftime to the time package

[andrewrussellmalcolm]

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I think an interface to strftime would be a useful addition to the time package, making easy formatting of dates

[ghost]

Duplicate of #8390

[andrewrussellmalcolm]

Thank's for the quick reply. Does that mean there is no interest in adding this? I have working implementation, it's a direct call to the function in the C standard library, which I would have thought would have helped in porting to go. Regards Andrew alcolm

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[robpike]

There are strftime equivalents available outside the main repository. See https://godoc.org/?q=strftime

[ianlancetaylor]

Thanks, but we aren't going to add this to the standard library. It works just as well outside the standard library, and the standard library already has a way to format dates. https://golang.org/doc/faq#x_in_std .