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Oh, another thing. Their date formatter is hilariously easy to remember: https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants

"01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700" // The reference time, in numerical order.

That is a very interesting approach to the problem. It is just a shame they didn't go with the third of February 2001 for their reference date, that would have been even easier to remember.

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