Data type for storing date time offset in golang

[Aishwarya]

In my application i am receiving a JSON data which contains a data in date time offset format . I need to unmarshal it and store in the data base in the same date time offset format . So is there a data type available in go to declare a variable in tat format ????

[C Banning]

why not just http://play.golang.org/p/XnJlVRU1Tm

[Kevin Malachowski]

What does this format look like? An example would be nice.

If it is an offset between two absolute points in time why not just store it in a time.Duration? That would integrate well with the stdlib's time library for doing operations with this value.