by michael.schurter:
The layout used by the time.Time.String() method is hardcoded into the method. If it
were a constant it would be easier to roundtrip time.Time's through a string (or []byte)
without having to copy and paste the layout out of Time.String's docstring.
Relevant code: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/time/format.go#397