ParseAny parse an unknown date format, detect the layout. Normal parse. Equivalent Timezone rules as time.Parse(). NOTE: please see readme on mmdd v

MustParse parse a date, and panic if it can't be parsed. Used for testing. Not recommended for most use-cases.

func (p *parser) remove(i, length int) { if len(p.format) > i+length { //append(a[:i], a[j:]...) p.format = append(p.format[0:i], p.format[i+leng

ParseIn with Location, equivalent to time.ParseInLocation() timezone/offset rules. Using location arg, if timezone/offset info exists in the datestri

ParseLocal Given an unknown date format, detect the layout, using time.Local, parse. Set Location to time.Local. Same as ParseIn Location but lazily

ParseStrict parse an unknown date format. IF the date is ambigous mm/dd vs dd/mm then return an error. These return errors: 3.3.2014 , 8/8/71 etc

RetryAmbiguousDateWithSwap is an option that allows retryAmbiguousDateWithSwap to be changed from its default

PreferMonthFirst is an option that allows preferMonthFirst to be changed from its default

ParseFormat parse's an unknown date-time string and returns a layout string that can parse this (and exact same format) other date-time strings. layo

* go test -bench Parse BenchmarkShotgunParse 50000 37588 ns/op 13258 B/op 167 allocs/op BenchmarkDateparseParseAny 500000 5752

Lets test to see how this performs using different Timezones/Locations Also of note, try changing your server/machine timezones and repeat !!!!! The