On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 2:55 PM Carl <carle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to understand the reasoning for the implementation, if > possible. > > Simple example: > I have a laptop running Ubuntu (or any other popular Linux distro). > I fly from New Zealand to Los Angeles > I open my laptop and change the timezone via the system GUI (which under > the hood uses timedatectl which updates /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime) > > If I had running services written in Go, they would not be aware of the > timezone change. > > Questions I have: > Why doesn't Go respect standard time zone changes? > Is there a recommended way to address this? >
How would Go do that in a cross-platform manner? Also, many long running programs may produce output (e.g., log files) where you don't want a TZ change to affect the output. Even if this capability were added to the Go stdlib it should be opt-in, not the default behavior. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD-xUMPXMy6WM_vf1O83mVV7TROam84uCJthRLnzjSY2cQ%40mail.gmail.com.
