We can't use the offset returned by Zone():
package main
import "fmt"
import "time"
func main() {
loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("America/Los_Angeles")
t := time.Date(2015,04,12,19,23,0,0,loc)
t2 := time.Date(2015,03,1,19,23,0,0,loc)
_, offset := t.Zone()
_, offset2 := t.Zone()
fmt.Printf("t1: %v offset: %d
", t, offset)
fmt.Printf("t2: %v offset: %d
", t2, offset2)
}
This returns:
t1: 2015-04-12 19:23:00 -0700 PDT offset: -25200
t2: 2015-03-01 19:23:00 -0800 PST offset: -25200
The offset does not reflect daylight savings. Is parsing manually the offset after formatting a time instance the only option (-0700 and -0800)?
We can retrieve the current time with time.Now(), but using .In() simply changes the location without adjusting the hours and minutes.