Merge pull request #587 from actiontech/fix-company-notice

fix: extract time util functions to pkg/timeutil for company notice timezone handling

Author: winfredLIN

pkg/timeutil/timeutil.go

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+package timeutil
+
+import "time"
+
+// ToUTC returns a pointer to the same instant expressed in UTC.
+// Returns nil if t is nil.
+//
+// The go-sql-driver/mysql with loc=Local symmetrically converts on both
+// write (In(loc)) and read (parsed as loc), so the time.Time already
+// carries the correct instant; calling UTC() only normalises the zone.
+func ToUTC(t *time.Time) *time.Time {
+	if t == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	utc := t.UTC()
+	return &utc
+}
+
+// NowUTC returns the current time in UTC.
+func NowUTC() time.Time {
+	return time.Now().UTC()
+}