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# strftime
Fast strftime for Go
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/lestrrat-go/strftime.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/lestrrat-go/strftime)
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# SYNOPSIS
```go
f := strftime.New(`.... pattern ...`)
if err := f.Format(buf, time.Now()); err != nil {
log.Println(err.Error())
}
```
# DESCRIPTION
The goals for this library are
* Optimized for the same pattern being called repeatedly
* Be flexible about destination to write the results out
* Be as complete as possible in terms of conversion specifications
# API
## Format(string, time.Time) (string, error)
Takes the pattern and the time, and formats it. This function is a utility function that recompiles the pattern every time the function is called. If you know beforehand that you will be formatting the same pattern multiple times, consider using `New` to create a `Strftime` object and reuse it.
## New(string) (\*Strftime, error)
Takes the pattern and creates a new `Strftime` object.
## obj.Pattern() string
Returns the pattern string used to create this `Strftime` object
## obj.Format(io.Writer, time.Time) error
Formats the time according to the pre-compiled pattern, and writes the result to the specified `io.Writer`
## obj.FormatString(time.Time) string
Formats the time according to the pre-compiled pattern, and returns the result string.
# SUPPORTED CONVERSION SPECIFICATIONS
| pattern | description |
|:--------|:------------|
| %A | national representation of the full weekday name |
| %a | national representation of the abbreviated weekday |
| %B | national representation of the full month name |
| %b | national representation of the abbreviated month name |
| %C | (year / 100) as decimal number; single digits are preceded by a zero |
| %c | national representation of time and date |
| %D | equivalent to %m/%d/%y |
| %d | day of the month as a decimal number (01-31) |
| %e | the day of the month as a decimal number (1-31); single digits are preceded by a blank |
| %F | equivalent to %Y-%m-%d |
| %H | the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (00-23) |
| %h | same as %b |
| %I | the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (01-12) |
| %j | the day of the year as a decimal number (001-366) |
| %k | the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (0-23); single digits are preceded by a blank |
| %l | the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (1-12); single digits are preceded by a blank |
| %M | the minute as a decimal number (00-59) |
| %m | the month as a decimal number (01-12) |
| %n | a newline |
| %p | national representation of either "ante meridiem" (a.m.) or "post meridiem" (p.m.) as appropriate. |
| %R | equivalent to %H:%M |
| %r | equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p |
| %S | the second as a decimal number (00-60) |
| %T | equivalent to %H:%M:%S |
| %t | a tab |
| %U | the week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53) |
| %u | the weekday (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (1-7) |
| %V | the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (01-53) |
| %v | equivalent to %e-%b-%Y |
| %W | the week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (00-53) |
| %w | the weekday (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number (0-6) |
| %X | national representation of the time |
| %x | national representation of the date |
| %Y | the year with century as a decimal number |
| %y | the year without century as a decimal number (00-99) |
| %Z | the time zone name |
| %z | the time zone offset from UTC |
| %% | a '%' |
# PERFORMANCE / OTHER LIBRARIES
The following benchmarks were run separately because some libraries were using cgo on specific platforms (notabley, the fastly version)
```
// On my OS X 10.11.6, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5, 16GB memory.
// go version go1.8rc1 darwin/amd64
hummingbird% go test -tags bench -benchmem -bench .
<snip>
BenchmarkTebeka-4 300000 4469 ns/op 288 B/op 21 allocs/op
BenchmarkJehiah-4 1000000 1931 ns/op 256 B/op 17 allocs/op
BenchmarkFastly-4 2000000 724 ns/op 80 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrrat-4 1000000 1572 ns/op 240 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrratCachedString-4 3000000 548 ns/op 128 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrratCachedWriter-4 500000 2519 ns/op 192 B/op 3 allocs/op
PASS
ok github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime 22.900s
```
```
// On a host on Google Cloud Platform, machine-type: n1-standard-4 (vCPU x 4, memory: 15GB)
// Linux <snip> 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
// go version go1.8rc1 linux/amd64
hummingbird% go test -tags bench -benchmem -bench .
<snip>
BenchmarkTebeka-4 500000 3904 ns/op 288 B/op 21 allocs/op
BenchmarkJehiah-4 1000000 1665 ns/op 256 B/op 17 allocs/op
BenchmarkFastly-4 1000000 2134 ns/op 192 B/op 13 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrrat-4 1000000 1327 ns/op 240 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrratCachedString-4 3000000 498 ns/op 128 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkLestrratCachedWriter-4 1000000 3390 ns/op 192 B/op 3 allocs/op
PASS
ok github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime 44.854s
```
This library is much faster than other libraries *IF* you can reuse the format pattern.
Here's the annotated list from the benchmark results. You can clearly see that (re)using a `Strftime` object
and producing a string is the fastest. Writing to an `io.Writer` seems a bit sluggish, but since
the one producing the string is doing almost exactly the same thing, we believe this is purely the overhead of
writing to an `io.Writer`
| Import Path | Score | Note |
|:------------------------------------|--------:|:--------------------------------|
| github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime | 3000000 | Using `FormatString()` (cached) |
| github.com/fastly/go-utils/strftime | 2000000 | Pure go version on OS X |
| github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime | 1000000 | Using `Format()` (NOT cached) |
| github.com/jehiah/go-strftime | 1000000 | |
| github.com/fastly/go-utils/strftime | 1000000 | cgo version on Linux |
| github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime | 500000 | Using `Format()` (cached) |
| github.com/tebeka/strftime | 300000 | |
However, depending on your pattern, this speed may vary. If you find a particular pattern that seems sluggish,
please send in patches or tests.
Please also note that this benchmark only uses the subset of conversion specifications that are supported by *ALL* of the libraries compared.
Somethings to consider when making performance comparisons in the future:
* Can it write to io.Writer?
* Which `%specification` does it handle?