Is golang 2038-safe?

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Are golang’s standard library functions 2038-safe?

I can’t tell from the time package documentation whether timestamps are encoded with 64 bits or not.

https://golang.org/pkg/time/

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https://play.golang.org/p/2ke99RDH5Hf

Seems so

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As you can see from the source, it’s based on 64 bit:

https://golang.org/src/time/time.go?s=6278:7279#L117

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