LocalDate vs time.Time in toml.Unmarshal

[bep]

We have had some bug reports in Hugo after the v2 upgrade because of the new local date/datetime types. I probably should have seen these coming and fixed them sooner, as they are fixable on our side. But after doing some work on this (see https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/9981) I get a nagging feeling that it would possibly be good to have an option or two re. dates in go-toml's Decoder:

• I notice that it's using time.Local when decoding into a time.Time.
• When decoding into a map[string]interface{} you currently now always get LocalDateTime/LocalDate.

What would be nice here would be to have Decoder options for

• the Location to use (time.Local does not work in settings with multiple time zones etc.)
• also an option to get time.Time when the target is map[string]interface{} (which was the behaviour in v1)

The workaround I'm looking at on the Hugo side now, is to walk the map[string]interface{} and do a conversion, but I have a nagging suspicion that this may be a concern from more people out there.

/cc @jmooring

[bep]

I'm closing this, I need to think a little.