On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 4:54 PM, <m...@stengle.in> wrote: > > I'm looking to generate accurate VTIMEZONE objects according to RFC5545, and > I > need a reasonable way to access the raw information regarding DST shifts. > > I've read through the time package and I see there's a function called > `LoadLocation` in src/time/zoneinfo.go, but I don't see any means to > actually > use the Location object returned since the Location struct itself doesn't > export any of it's fields. > > Is there a way to access this information without forking the entire package > just to change the case of the relevant structs and fields? All the data I > need is already inside the time implementation. It just needs to be made > public. > > Related question: Does this sound like something worth proposing a change to > the time package to add? The pain of dealing with timezones would be greatly > eased by not having to compile the IANA database from scratch.
I think you should fork the relevant part of the time package. I don't think we want to lock the time package into a specific way of handling and representing timezone data. See also https://golang.org/issue/20629. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
