Dgraph date.Time and golang time.Time

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Hello.
What correct type I can add to dgraph dateTime type?
In golang

type Time1 struct {	
	TimeRFC       string    `json:"timerfc,omitempty"`
	TimeTimeRFC   time.Time `json:"ttrfc,omitempty"`
}

        ex := "02 Jan 2006"
        t, _ = time.Parse(ex, "11 Feb 2018")
	fmt.Println(t)
	trfc := t.Format(time.RFC3339)
	fmt.Println(trfc)
	fmt.Printf("%T\n", trfc)                                //string
	t2, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, trfc)
	fmt.Println(t2)
	fmt.Printf("%T\n", t2)                                 //time.Time

schema:

                timerfc: dateTime .
		ttrfc: dateTime .

If I added string type trfc (golang) with timerfc: dateTime . it’s correct
And if I added date.Time type t2 (golang) with ttrfc: dateTime . It’s correct too.
What golang type is better to add?

2

Either works and depends on your use case. If you simply need to display the time, you can use string. If you need to do some datetime operations, use time.Time.

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