&gt; 1. The date is not easy to remember<p><i>not easy</i> to remember or just <i>unfamiliar</i>?<p>&gt; 2. There is still an ambiguity with hours representation. What if I want to represent hours without a leading 0 for values smaller than 10 ?<p>is that not `3`?<p>&gt; I guess I should than use my own formatting instead of predefined formating.<p>what do you mean?<p>some common formats are defined here and how it all works is described there as well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;time&#x2F;#pkg-constants" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;time&#x2F;#pkg-constants</a> it also mentions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;time&#x2F;#Time.Format" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;time&#x2F;#Time.Format</a> (click the `&gt; Example`)