time.LoadLocation not working on play.golang.org?

[Lobatt]

Check this: http://play.golang.org/p/s77bcLYHax

Also pasted below:

package main

import "fmt"

import "time"

func main() {

t := time.Now()

loc, err := time.LoadLocation("America/New_York")

if err != nil {

fmt.Printf("Error: %s\n", err)

}

fmt.Printf("UTC %s, Local time: %s, tz %s\n", t.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), t.In(loc).Format(time.RFC3339), loc.String())

}

output:

Error: unknown time zone America/New_York
panic: time: missing Location in call to Time.In

And on my mac this program worked fine,

output:

UTC 2014-02-26T15:56:58Z, Local time: 2014-02-26T10:56:58-05:00, tz America/New_York

Just want to make sure that I didn't created a bug in my code that could be triggered on other platforms.

[Matthew Zimmerman]

The location information is pulled from the local filesystem.  Most systems will support it but it does depend what is loaded on the particular system.  As always, catch and handle your errors ☺

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[Lobatt]

Thanks for replying and for the advice, Matthew!

Also I checked the doc, I thought for any go installation, there will always be a $GOROOT/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip presented in the filesystem, maybe play.golang.org need some configuration tweaks?

[Matthew Zimmerman]

I've experienced issues with LoadLocation on the Go Playground and
also on AppEngine so that's why I say it varies. AppEngine is
supposed to be fixed with the next deployment.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine-go/0z015BKW_-Q/Ru16-C71POYJ

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Lobatt <lob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also I checked the doc, I thought for any go installation, there will always
> be a $GOROOT/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip presented in the filesystem, maybe
> play.golang.org need some configuration tweaks?

This is http://golang.org/issue/4755 .

Ian