time.go

package epp

import (
	"encoding/xml"
	"time"
)

// Time represents EPP date-time values, serialized to XML in RFC-3339 format.
// Because the default encoding.TextMarshaler implementation in time.Time uses
// RFC-3339, we don’t need to create a custom marshaler for this type.
type Time struct {
	time.Time
}

// UnmarshalXML implements a custom XML unmarshaler that ignores time parsing errors.
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/25015260
func (t *Time) UnmarshalXML(d *xml.Decoder, start xml.StartElement) error {
	var v string
	d.DecodeElement(&v, &start)
	if tt, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, v); err == nil {
		*t = Time{tt}
	}
	return nil
}