From 039b641eabfaaccef32ebcfeee4257e22627a255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Baker <joshbaker77@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:58:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added result.Time() function

---
 README.md     | 1 +
 gjson.go      | 7 +++++++
 gjson_test.go | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4898423..5832c54 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ result.Uint() uint64
 result.Float() float64
 result.String() string
 result.Bool() bool
+result.Time() time.Time
 result.Array() []gjson.Result
 result.Map() map[string]gjson.Result
 result.Get(path string) Result
diff --git a/gjson.go b/gjson.go
index e01fb01..52c37f4 100644
--- a/gjson.go
+++ b/gjson.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package gjson
 import (
 	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
+	"time"
 	"unicode/utf16"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 	"unsafe"
@@ -140,6 +141,12 @@ func (t Result) Float() float64 {
 	}
 }
 
+// Time returns a time.Time representation.
+func (t Result) Time() time.Time {
+	res, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, t.String())
+	return res
+}
+
 // Array returns back an array of values.
 // If the result represents a non-existent value, then an empty array will be returned.
 // If the result is not a JSON array, the return value will be an array containing one result.
diff --git a/gjson_test.go b/gjson_test.go
index 08901d8..d4bbb1e 100644
--- a/gjson_test.go
+++ b/gjson_test.go
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ var basicJSON = `{"age":100, "name":{"here":"B\\\"R"},
 	"items":[1,2,3,{"tags":[1,2,3],"points":[[1,2],[3,4]]},4,5,6,7],
 	"arr":["1",2,"3",{"hello":"world"},"4",5],
 	"vals":[1,2,3,{"sadf":sdf"asdf"}],"name":{"first":"tom","last":null},
+	"created":"2014-05-16T08:28:06.989Z",
 	"loggy":{
 		"programmers": [
     	    {
@@ -144,6 +145,10 @@ var basicJSON = `{"age":100, "name":{"here":"B\\\"R"},
 }`
 var basicJSONB = []byte(basicJSON)
 
+func TestTimeResult(t *testing.T) {
+	assert(t, Get(basicJSON, "created").String() == Get(basicJSON, "created").Time().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
+}
+
 func TestParseAny(t *testing.T) {
 	assert(t, Parse("100").Float() == 100)
 	assert(t, Parse("true").Bool())