have you got ze time? a library for timestamps, dates, and calendars

[Jason E. Aten]

You really want to use a time library built by physicists, 

which is why I've always appreciated the Go standard

"time" library by Russ Cox and Rob Pike.

In contrast, timestamp support in other languages, like R, is based on

the C standard lib, which can be painful. 

I've actually built R libraries that entirely use the Go 

standard time library in preference

to the R builtin timestamp handling, in order to use Go's its vastly 

better time package.

On top of "time", one usually needs date and calendar support.

I've open sourced my date, calendar, and timestamp handling

library, called "zetm" which has been used in extensive

time-series processing production code.

https://github.com/glycerine/zetm

Enjoy.

Jason