Time

[chris-martin]

There's some extremely common time-related tasks it'd be really nice to demonstrate.

• Rendering and parsing yyyy-mm-dd format
• Getting the current unix timestamp as an integer in the units of your choice (e.g. seconds or milliseconds)
• Converting a unix timestamp to an appropriate time type (e.g. if we're consuming a JSON API that expresses a time as a timestamp)
• Basic time arithmetic, like getting a time that represents "a year from now"

If using the time package, make sure you're using the latest version, because the API has changed a bit recently. time has gotten a bit better with the new changes but I wouldn't mind recommending a different library if anybody can recommend something friendlier.

Potential idea for a practial example: use the cookies library to generate a set-cookie header for a cookie that is set to expire one month in the future.