panic: unknown time zone America/New_York

[Johnson]

I'm making a party scheduling app and since all the parties are going to be in NYC, I thought I'd store the times in the Eastern time zone. Any idea why this initial step isn't working? 

http://play.golang.org/p/lad4qUoyyC

package main

import (

"fmt"

"time"

)

func main() {

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

if err != nil {

panic(err)

}

fmt.Printf("%+v", loc)

}

 

panic: unknown time zone America/New_York

goroutine 1 [running]:

main.main()

/tmpfs/gosandbox-641c4dbf_b537c84f_285baba8_9540e6d4_50f4d85c/prog.go:11 +0x72

[Kyle Lemons]

That won't work on the Playground because it doesn't have access to /usr/share/zoneinfo.

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[Johnson]

Thanks, Kyle. It doesn't work on the dev_appserver on Windows, either. Any suggestions?

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[David Symonds]

You could use http://golang.org/pkg/time/#FixedZone.

[Johnson]

That worked, David, thanks!

t = t.In(time.FixedZone("EST", 68400))