toddgaunt-gs
commented
9 months ago I can comment that some lints from my organization are given the util.ZeroDate since we want them effective immediately, and we don't necessarily care for specifying the exact date it should be enacted unless we plan on rolling out the lint in a release before it should be effective. In these cases I'd assume it was similar, and that there is little harm done in giving a ZeroDate instead of the actual effective date if the actual date is long in the past.
dadrian
Example: func init() { lint.RegisterLint(&lint.Lint{ Name: "e_sub_ca_aia_marked_critical", Description: "Subordinate CA Certificate: authorityInformationAccess MUST NOT be marked critical", Citation: "BRs: 7.1.2.2", Source: lint.CABFBaselineRequirements, EffectiveDate: util.ZeroDate, Lint: NewSubCaAIAMarkedCritical, }) }