[viraptor]

> will end up with badly formatted timestamps.

I'm not sure why you think that. If rfc3339 format is required, then either a custom formatter can be created or a 3rd party lib can be used. Go may be silly in its stdlib, but it doesn't stop you from doing the right thing.

[lozf]

It turns out that although the examples aren't great, actually Go does do the right thing, so my mistake, as explained by lann some hours ago.