I haven't spent any time looking at Go because I'm pretty satisfied with Ada, but these libs do smell a bit like the Ada time handling functions which only get better through each ISO revision. Not handling dates like POSIX is nothing new, but it some of us just haven't been exposed to it. Of course, Ada would never guess at a format. Blasphemy. The more you know™

http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-9-6.html http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-9-6-1.html http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-D-8.html