How to Get Current time in Golang?

With the help of time.Now() function, we can get the current time in Golang by importing time module.

Syntax: time.Now()
Return: Return current date and time.

Example #1: In this example, we can see that by using time.Now() function, we are able to get the current date and time.

// Golang program to get the current time
package main

// Here "fmt" is formatted IO which
// is same as C’s printf and scanf.
import "fmt"

// importing time module
import "time"

// Main function
func main() {

    // Using time.Now() function.
    dt := time.Now()
    fmt.Println("Current date and time is: ", dt.String())
}

Output :

Current date and time is:  2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC m=+0.000000001

Example #2:

// Golang program to get the current time
package main

// Here "fmt" is formatted IO which
// is same as C’s printf and scanf.
import "fmt"

// importing time module
import "time"

// Main function
func main() {

    // Using time.Now() function.
    dt := time.Now()
    fmt.Println(dt.Format("01-02-2006 15:04:05"))

}

Output:

11-10-2009 23:00:00