Source File
	timestamp.go

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	github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto

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package proto

// This file implements operations on google.protobuf.Timestamp.

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

const (
	// Seconds field of the earliest valid Timestamp.
	// This is time.Date(1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC).Unix().
	minValidSeconds = -62135596800
	// Seconds field just after the latest valid Timestamp.
	// This is time.Date(10000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC).Unix().
	maxValidSeconds = 253402300800
)

// validateTimestamp determines whether a Timestamp is valid.
// A valid timestamp represents a time in the range
// [0001-01-01, 10000-01-01) and has a Nanos field
// in the range [0, 1e9).
//
// If the Timestamp is valid, validateTimestamp returns nil.
// Otherwise, it returns an error that describes
// the problem.
//
// Every valid Timestamp can be represented by a time.Time, but the converse is not true.
func validateTimestamp(ts *timestamp) error {
	if ts == nil {
		return errors.New("timestamp: nil Timestamp")
	}
	if ts.Seconds < minValidSeconds {
		return fmt.Errorf("timestamp: %#v before 0001-01-01", ts)
	}
	if ts.Seconds >= maxValidSeconds {
		return fmt.Errorf("timestamp: %#v after 10000-01-01", ts)
	}
	if ts.Nanos < 0 || ts.Nanos >= 1e9 {
		return fmt.Errorf("timestamp: %#v: nanos not in range [0, 1e9)", ts)
	}
	return nil
}

// TimestampFromProto converts a google.protobuf.Timestamp proto to a time.Time.
// It returns an error if the argument is invalid.
//
// Unlike most Go functions, if Timestamp returns an error, the first return value
// is not the zero time.Time. Instead, it is the value obtained from the
// time.Unix function when passed the contents of the Timestamp, in the UTC
// locale. This may or may not be a meaningful time; many invalid Timestamps
// do map to valid time.Times.
//
// A nil Timestamp returns an error. The first return value in that case is
// undefined.
func timestampFromProto(ts *timestamp) (time.Time, error) {
	// Don't return the zero value on error, because corresponds to a valid
	// timestamp. Instead return whatever time.Unix gives us.
	var t time.Time
	if ts == nil {
		t = time.Unix(0, 0).UTC() // treat nil like the empty Timestamp
	} else {
		t = time.Unix(ts.Seconds, int64(ts.Nanos)).UTC()
	}
	return t, validateTimestamp(ts)
}

// TimestampProto converts the time.Time to a google.protobuf.Timestamp proto.
// It returns an error if the resulting Timestamp is invalid.
func timestampProto(t time.Time) (*timestamp, error) {
	seconds := t.Unix()
	nanos := int32(t.Sub(time.Unix(seconds, 0)))
	ts := &timestamp{
		Seconds: seconds,
		Nanos:   nanos,
	}
	if err := validateTimestamp(ts); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return ts, nil
}

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