Finding today's date

Obtaining the current date is a very common task for any system or application. Let's look at how this is done with help of Go's standard library.

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter04/recipe01.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Create the today.go file with the following content:

        package main

        import (
          "fmt"
          "time"
        )

        func main() {
          today := time.Now()
          fmt.Println(today)
        }

4. Execute the code by running go run today.go in the main Terminal.
5. You will see the following output:

How it...