time: Parse not parsing PST properly on playground

[vivekmenezes]

http://play.golang.org/p/NYza3grttO

As you see PST is landing up with an offset from UTC of 0!

The correct answer is as documented in

https://golang.org/src/time/example_test.go line 196

Thanks

[vivekmenezes]

This is in go 1.5

[ianlancetaylor]

The playground does not have timezone information.

Time zone names like PST are parsed based on your local timezone information. On my Ubuntu GNU/Linux system, I get the correct value because the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT exists. If a file like that does not exist on your system, then the results are expected.

I'm closing this as expected, but please feel free to reopen if you disagree.

[vivekmenezes]

Sounds good.

// printed for 1970-2469 will apply as well to 2470-2869. Even the days

Can you change the years on this line to 1970-2369 and 2370-2769

Thanks!

[minux]

The playground does have timezone.zip embedded in its fake filesystem. The reason the program doesn't work is because to interpret a short time zone time, the time package needs to know the location, and the playground doesn't have a default location. For example, if you specifically parse in a location where PST make sense, it should work. http://play.golang.org/p/hdv8x1WYXt

[ianlancetaylor]

Sent https://golang.org/cl/14034 . Thanks.