time: Parse doesn't handle the WITA timezone #18251
Description
Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
What version of Go are you using (go version)?
go version go1.7 linux/amd64
What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build802273434=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
What did you do?
https://play.golang.org/p/5QrELIrjNQ Golang's time.Parse() doesn't handle the WITA timezone (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/).
parseTimeZone defined in (golang.org/src/time/format.go) expects any 4 lettered timezone to end in T, but WITA doesn't
What did you expect to see?
Not an error.
What did you see instead?
Error while parsing