I have the following string 2021-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST that I need to convert to a time.Time value in golang. I know how to do it but I don’t know what the layout should be to parse these type of strings.

time, err := time.ParseInLocation("2021-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST", addedOn, loc)

And this is giving me errors like "error":"parsing time \"2021-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST\" as \"2021-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST\": cannot parse \"-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST\" as \"1\""

So, what should be the correct layout for such strings?

>Solution :

You are putting the date in place of the time layout.

See time#ParseInLocation

func ParseInLocation(layout, value string, loc *Location) (Time, error)

For instance:

loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("Europe/Berlin")

// This will look for the name CEST in the Europe/Berlin time zone.
const longForm = "Jan 2, 2006 at 3:04pm (MST)"
t, _ := time.ParseInLocation(longForm, "Jul 9, 2012 at 5:02am (CEST)", loc)
fmt.Println(t)

In your case:

t , _ := time.ParseInLocation("2006-01-02 15:04:05 -0700 MST", "2021-05-06 00:00:00 +0530 IST", loc)

See playground example (and other ParseInLocation examples here)