From e3acfe56f06abc4eff33d61b2fd8c1696a1b0126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: necro <necroforger@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:19:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added SnowflakeTimestamp utility function to obtain the
 creation date of a discord snowflake ID

---
 util.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 util.go

diff --git a/util.go b/util.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02443ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package discordgo
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// SnowflakeTimestamp returns the creation time of a Snowflake ID relative to the creation of Discord.
+func SnowflakeTimestamp(ID string) (t time.Time, err error) {
+	i, err := strconv.ParseInt(ID, 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	timestamp := (i >> 22) + 1420070400000
+	t = time.Unix(timestamp/1000, 0)
+	return
+}