How to parse unix timestamp to time.Time

Question

I\'m trying to parse an Unix timestamp but I get out of range error. That doesn\'t really makes sense to me, because the layout is correct (as in the Go docs):

Answer 1

According to the go documentation, Unix returns a local time.

Unix returns the local Time corresponding to the given Unix time

This means the output would depend on the machine your code runs on, which, most often is what you need, but sometimes, you may want to have the value in UTC.

To do so, I adapted the snippet to make it return a time in UTC:

i, err := strconv.ParseInt("1405544146", 10, 64)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
tm := time.Unix(i, 0)
fmt.Println(tm.UTC())

This prints on my machine (in CEST)

2014-07-16 20:55:46 +0000 UTC