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I am trying to use gRPC and using the exchange message format as protobuf. I wanted to add timestamp field inside my message.But i don't know the right way to add the import statement in proto file. I am using Golang so I need an output as .pb.go

infiniteLearner
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Rajesh kumar
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    Even if you've added library for timestamp as mentioned in below answers, be sure to import the package "C:\Program Files\protoc-3.13.0-win64\include" as it contains libraries related to timestamp. Faced error because of path problem thought to share it. – infiniteLearner Oct 21 '20 at 12:23

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Make sure to import in your proto file:

import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto";

And use the type for you variable like:

google.protobuf.Timestamp time_name = 1;
Sergeenho
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In your proto file:

import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto"

Based on the documentation, that should be all that's necessary.

Eric Anderson
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You can import timestamp from the ptypes package: in the standard Go Protobuf repo.

import (
    "github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp"
)
Carl Mastrangelo
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Grpc does not have a timestamp AFAIK.
I usually use the Unix Epoch - the go function 

 Unix(sec int64, nsec int64)

and

func (t Time) Unix() int64

is your fried

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