The fact that duration is basically an int wrapper around nanoseconds, and converting between different units is very awkward are just the beginning. Take a loo

The fact that duration is basically an int wrapper around nanoseconds, and converting between different units is very awkward are just the beginning. Take a look at Joda time (JVM, which served as the basis of what later was integrated into the standard lib) or Noda time (.NET) to see examples of properly designed time libraries. It's no wonder that golang's badly designed time library caused an outage at cloudflare.