How to Get Current Timestamp in Golang

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Use the time.Now().Unix() function to get the current timestamp in Golang. The time.Unix() function is a method of the time.Time type in Go, which represents a time value.

The time.Unix() function returns the Unix time, which is the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970, UTC, and the time.Now() function returns a time.Time type, which contains both the date and time.

The time package in Go provides functions to work with dates and times and the time.Now() function returns the current local time.

If you need only the timestamp, use the Unix() or UnixNano() methods to get the number of seconds or nanoseconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970).

Example

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "time"
)

func main() {
  timestamp := time.Now().Unix()
  fmt.Println("The current timestamp is:", timestamp)
}

Output

The current timestamp is: 1676117332

You can see that we got the current timestamp in seconds using the time.Now().Unix() function.

How to get the current time in Go

If you want to get the current time in Golang, you can use the time.Now() function like this: time.Now().

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "time"
)

func main() {
  tme := time.Now()
  fmt.Println("The current time is:", tme)
}

Output

The current time is: 2023-02-11 17:48:33.002301 +0530 IST m=+0.000221043

Conclusion

To get the “timestamp” of a date in (number of seconds from January 1970), the correct function is Time.Unix() function in Golang.

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