I read in a recent Go issue that Go uses time zone data in GOROOT for Windows and Plan 9.
I looked through the Go proposal documents, but couldn't find one for the time package that had the original reasons, but I assume the reasons are because Windows didn't used to have IANA-compatible time zone info, and Plan 9 still doesn't. Can anyone point me to info about why Go doesn't use the time zone info in the Windows registry instead? It looks like there is now a full mapping from IANA zones to Windows zones <https://superuser.com/questions/1709147/history-explanation-for-time-zones-on-windows> . I'm also curious why Plan 9 doesn't include a tzdata or zoneinfo database file for programs to use for time zone logic/math, like most OSs, if anyone happens to know. I understand wanting to keep the system time simple, but the database still seems useful for generally doing math with times from different time zones. Why not just include it for programs? Will -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/0e1fcf87-4569-4de5-a34d-f4b6a3a0f11en%40googlegroups.com.
