> and so will be unaffected.
</p>

<h3 id="time">Time</h3>

<p>
Time is always a challenge to support well in a programming language.
The old Go <code>time</code> package had <code>int64</code> units, no
real type safety,
and no distinction between absolute times and durations.
</p>

<p>
One of the most sweeping changes in the Go 1 library is therefore a
complete redesign of the
<a href="/pkg/time/"><code>time</code></a> package.
Instead of an integer number of nanoseconds as an <code>int64</code>,
and a se