proposal: time: add Location.Zone method?

[tnclong]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.8

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

mac OS

What did you do?

I found method Zone() on time.Time that get the zone name and zone offset second.
I want get the same things from time.Location.

Do you consider add a Zone() method to time.Location ?
It's also really better that we can get a method Offset(*time.Location) in time.Location

Thanks for your reply.

[ALTree]

Each Location can have multiple timezones so that would have to be Zones (not Zone), returning a slice of zonenames. Same for offsets. For example Europe/Rome has [CET, CEST].

Keep also in mind that the set of timezones used in a Location can change over time, so I'm not so sure it would make sense to add a Zones method to Location.

[ianlancetaylor]

@tnclong It would help if you could provide an example for how you would want to use this.

Note that Location already has a String method that returns the descriptive name.

[rsc]

The zone name and zone offset in use depend on exactly what time it is. That's why time.Time has the method and not time.Location. We could add a method on Location where you pass in a time, but then instead of loc.ZoneFor(t) why not do t.In(loc).Zone()?

(This is also why Location is called Location and not time.Zone.)