Get current time as formatted string in Go?

For readability, best to use the RFC constants in the time package (me thinks)

import "fmt" 
import "time"

func main() {
    fmt.Println(time.Now().Format(time.RFC850))
}

Use the time.Now() function and the time.Format() method.

t := time.Now()
fmt.Println(t.Format("20060102150405"))

prints out 20110504111515, or at least it did a few minutes ago. (I'm on Eastern Daylight Time.) There are several pre-defined time formats in the constants defined in the time package.

You can use time.Now().UTC() if you'd rather have UTC than your local time zone.

Use the time.Now() and time.Format() functions (as time.LocalTime() doesn't exist anymore as of Go 1.0.3)

t := time.Now()
fmt.Println(t.Format("20060102150405"))

Online demo (with date fixed in the past in the playground, never mind)

All the other response are very miss-leading for somebody coming from google and looking for "timestamp in go"! YYYYMMDDhhmmss is not a "timestamp".

To get the "timestamp" of a date in go (number of seconds from january 1970), the correct function is .Unix(), and it really return an integer