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> What’s especially maddening in it is that it is so US-centric, with month coming before day in these number patterns,

Whether this particular bit of design is good or not, you'll certainly be hard pressed to find someone who has a reasonable argument in favor of the absurdity that is the Go date-time format string.

> 2006-01-02 (aka 'yyyy-MM-dd')

> January 02, 2006 (aka 'MMMM dd, yyyy')

> Jan-06 (aka 'MMM-yy')

> Monday (aka 'EEEE')

It's insanity start to finish and it boggles the mind how it was ever accepted in the language spec.