It's great. You can store the offset in terms of pi too

These slides from Brad Fitzpatrick himself on the subject were a lot more informative:

http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide

Thanks. This form of internet journalism really irritates me, trying desperately to create a compelling narrative out of fairly dry technical parts, only to end abruptly to some upbeat testimonial - it reads more like a poorly written press release.

Avoid the pain of Windows 8.

Stay classy Canonical...