Go, despite its robust standard library, does not support ordinal dates out of the box like ‘th’ and ‘st’. This makes producing dates in the format “1st January 2000” much harder - which we use a lot here in the UK. In this post we’ll aim to show how you can make this easier. For reference, these are the options Go uses when chosing a new format: 1 Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 Our example below implements this for ourselves, as we create formatDateWithOrdinal() to print a given t...
