Golang XML Unmarshal and time.Time fields

Question

I have XML data I am retrieving via a REST API that I am unmarshal-ing into a GO struct. One of the fields is a date field, however the date format returned by the API does not

Answer 1

From what I have read the encoding/xml has some known issues that have been put off until a later date...

To get around this issue, instead of using the type time.Time use string and handle the parsing afterwards.

I had quite a bit of trouble getting time.Parse to work with dates in the following format: "Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:39 GMT"

Oddly enough I found that "net/http" has a ParseTime function that takes a string that worked perfectly... http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ParseTime