This is what the documentation has to say about it:
> These are predefined layouts for use in Time.Format and time.Parse. The reference time used in these layouts is the specific time stamp:
01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700
(January 2, 15:04:05, 2006, in time zone seven hours west of GMT). That value is recorded as the constant named Layout, listed below. As a Unix time, this is 1136239445. Since MST is GMT-0700, the reference would be printed by the Unix date command as:
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006
It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting the numerical month before the day.
Using the American convention is regrettable, but putting the year after the time is even more regrettable IMHO. Not sure which timestamp format does that? Plan 9?
> These are predefined layouts for use in Time.Format and time.Parse. The reference time used in these layouts is the specific time stamp:
01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700 (January 2, 15:04:05, 2006, in time zone seven hours west of GMT). That value is recorded as the constant named Layout, listed below. As a Unix time, this is 1136239445. Since MST is GMT-0700, the reference would be printed by the Unix date command as:
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting the numerical month before the day.
Using the American convention is regrettable, but putting the year after the time is even more regrettable IMHO. Not sure which timestamp format does that? Plan 9?