It is exaclty this attitude what makes the datetime format in Golang extremely difficult to use. I always have to double check my formatting. I like the basic idea very much, but its logic only works for 'local' Americans.

    The reference time used in the layouts is the specific time:
    Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006
    which is Unix time 1136239445. Since MST is GMT-0700, the reference time can be thought of as
    01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700`

Golang was not meant to become a big international language from the start? Just a fun internal Google project ;-)