A type to use time.Time and quoted numerical timestamps with json marshal/unmarshal

quotedTimestamp.go

package main

// Liberally used https://medium.com/coding-and-deploying-in-the-cloud/time-stamps-in-golang-abcaf581b72f

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"strconv"
	"time"
)

type myStruct struct {
	Ts QuotedTimestamp `json:"ts,string"`
}

type QuotedTimestamp time.Time

func (t *QuotedTimestamp) Time() time.Time {
	return time.Time(*t)
}

func (t *QuotedTimestamp) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	ts := time.Time(*t).Unix()
	stamp := fmt.Sprint(ts)
	return []byte(`"`+stamp+`"`), nil
}

func (t *QuotedTimestamp) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
	ts, err := strconv.Atoi(string(b))
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	*t = QuotedTimestamp(time.Unix(int64(ts), 0))

	return nil
}

func main() {
	j := []byte(`{"ts": "1430502363"}`)
	var m myStruct
	_ = json.Unmarshal(j, &m)
	fmt.Println(m.Ts.Time().Format("Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006"))

	newJ, _ := json.MarshalIndent(&m, "", "")
	fmt.Println(string(newJ))
	time.Sleep(1)
}