format a date in to the format month day, year hour:minute:second am/pm in go

To format a date to the format "month day, year hour:minute:second am/pm" in Go, you can use the time package and its Format function.

Here is an example code snippet:

main.go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    t := time.Now()
    formatted := t.Format("January 2, 2006 3:04:05 PM")
    fmt.Println(formatted)
}
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In this code snippet, we first obtain the current datetime using time.Now(). We then use the Format function to format the datetime into the desired format, which uses predefined layout strings.

The layout string we use is "January 2, 2006 3:04:05 PM", which is a reference time of January 2, 2006 at 3:04:05 PM, the format we want. We use this reference time to parse and format the current datetime using the same format symbols.

The output of the above code would be:

main.go
October 21, 2021 3:32:45 PM
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which is the current date and time in the format "month day, year hour:minute:second am/pm".