Hoverfly Cloud has powerful templating features to render the date and time with offsets as required based on the underlying Go programming language.
The Go language uses a fixed reference time — Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 — to define date/time layouts. Each element of that date maps to a component (e.g., 2006 = year, 01 = month, 02 = day, 15 = 24h hour, 03 = 12h hour, 04 = minutes, 05 = seconds, MST = time zone). This format, inherited from Plan 9, was chosen as a mnemonic since the digits 1–7 appear in order across the reference. https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Parse
NOTE! It is important to use the fixed referenced date and time when applying a format to a date. Do not use todays date or any other date.
Description
Example
Result
The current date time with offset, in the given format.
For example:
The current date time plus 1 day in unix timestamp
The current date time in ISO 8601 format
The current date time minus 1 day in custom format
{{ now '1d' 'unix' }}
{{ now '' '' }}
{{ now '-1d' '2006-Jan-02' }}
1136300645
2006-01-02T15:04:05Z
2006-Jan-01
ANSIC
{{now '' 'Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006'}}
Wed Sep 17 14:31:18 2025
UnixDate
{{now '' 'Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 MST 2006'}}
Wed Sep 17 14:31:18 UTC 2025
RubyDate
{{now '' 'Mon Jan 02 15:04:05 -0700 2006'}}
Wed Sep 17 14:31:18 +0000 2025
RFC822
{{now '' '02 Jan 06 15:04 MST'}}
17 Sep 25 14:31 UTC
RFC822Z
{{now '' '02 Jan 06 15:04 -0700'}}
17 Sep 25 14:31 +0000
RFC850
{{now '' 'Monday, 02-Jan-06 15:04:05 MST'}}
Wednesday, 17-Sep-25 14:31:18 UTC
RFC1123
{{now '' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST'}}
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:31:18 UTC
RFC1123Z
{{now '' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}}
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:31:18 +0000
RFC3339
{{now '' '2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00'}}
2025-09-17T14:31:18Z
RFC3339Nano
{{now '' '2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00'}}
2025-09-17T14:31:18.260445005Z
Kitchen
{{now '' '3:04PM'}}
2:31PM
When using template helper method now, time offset must be formatted using the following syntax.
ns
Nanosecond
us/µs
Microsecond
ms
Millisecond
s
Second
m
Minute
h
Hour
d
Day
y
Year
Prefix an offset with - to subtract the duration from the current date time.
1h30m
1 hour 5 minutes
1y10d
1 year 10 days
RFC1123Z +1 day = {{now '1d' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z -1 day = {{now '-1d' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z +5mins = {{now '5m' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z -5mins = {{now '-5m' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z +1h30min = {{now '1h30m' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z -1h30min = {{now '-1h30m' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z +1y10d = {{now '1y10d' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}} RFC1123Z -1y10d = {{now '-1y10d' 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700'}}
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