Define a new type of time in golang

Question

I want to have a struct like this:

type Person struct {
    Name string
    DateJoined time
}

But this struct will not compile, because there is no type time, isn't it? Should I alternatively use a string and insert the time / date information there?

Answer 1

time isn't a type. time.Time is. See the package docs for the types: http://golang.org/pkg/time/

import time

type Person struct {
    Name string
    DateJoined time.Time
}

Answer 2

you need to import time package and of course you use time.Time btw, it returned error when I defined my own type as below with similar reason to you. And, someone helped me to do cast (ex. mytime(time.Now()).

type mytime time.Time

You can make your own package and import always so that all your own type in your convenience