How to get the epoch timestamp in Go lang?

In Go lang, how to get the epoch timestamp, the number of seconds passed since the epoch?

In Go, you can use the time.Now() func to get current time and its Unix() func to convert it into an epoch timestamp:

import("time")

func getEpochTime() int64 {
    return time.Now().Unix()
}

If you would convert a time string to epoch timestamp, you can first parse the time string and then use the Unix() function to convert it into an epoch timestamp as follows.

package main

import (
    "time"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    thetime, e := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2012-11-01T22:08:41+00:00")

    if e != nil {
        panic("Can't parse time format")
    }

    epoch := thetime.Unix()

    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Epoch: %d\n", epoch)
}