The thing about dates

Last week I started to challenge myself with #100DaysOfCode. During the week I wrote a Twitch Bot that connects to a list of twitch channels and monitors channel followers and provides some statistics like time watched. Common enough, the follower API provides the time when the user followed the channel and in order to store it to the database with Go, I wanted first to convert it to a time.Time.

So, a bit of background - why I almost never deal with dates? PHP was my bread and butter for th...