Package monday is a minimalistic translator for month and day of week names in time.Date objects Monday is not an alternative to standard time package. It is a temporary solution to use while the internationalization features are not ready. That's why monday doesn't create any additional parsing algorithms, layout identifiers. It is just a wrapper for time.Format and time.ParseInLocation and uses all the same layout IDs, constants, etc. Format usage: Parse usage: Monday initializes all its data once in the init func and then uses only func calls and local vars. Thus, it's thread-safe and doesn't need any mutexes to be used with.