go - Unexpected output from time.Time

Question

I just started to learn Go by following a tutorial video on Udemy, and I tried to print the current time as below

import (
  "fmt" 
  "time"
)

func main(){
  t := time.Now()

  fmt.Println(t) 
}

And I get a very long text as the output as below

2018-07-04 12:03:07.2911671 +0800 +08 m=+0.002000201

I was expecting to get only the +0800 followed by a timeZone and that should be the end of it. The expected output is shown below and as it was shown in the tutorial video, too. But for me, the result is in much longer form.

2018-07-04 12:03:07.2911671 +0530 IST

The question is, why does the same command date.Now() return different formats between the instructor's program and mine? Why is there no specific format being set, shouldn't a standardize/base format being returned instead?

Answer 1

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