Obtaining a Unix Timestamp in Go Language (current time in seconds since epoch)

Question

I have some code written in Go which I am trying to update to work with the latest weekly builds. (It was last built under r60). Everything is now working except for the fol

Answer 1

Building on the idea from another answer here, to get a human-readable interpretation, you can use:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    timestamp := time.Unix(time.Now().Unix(), 0)
    fmt.Printf("%v", timestamp) // prints: 2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC
}

Try it in The Go Playground.