website: playground has no timezone data

[gopherbot]

by binaryexp:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
http://play.golang.org/p/vKknkh05zg

What is the expected output?
America/New_York

What do you see instead?
UTC

[rsc]

Comment 1:

This is probably working as intended. The playground has no file system access so it
cannot load the files. But perhaps we could fake it. I do miss being able to write
programs demonstrating time zones there.

Labels changed: added priority-someday, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to Accepted.

[bradfitz]

Comment 2:

Even without a filesystem, we could just link in the 370 KB timezone.zip file as a
private string in the time package and make a zoneinfo_playground.go which reads from
that?

[gopherbot]

Comment 3 by binaryexp:

Sounds great. I'm working on integrating timezone functionality into my app, and was
initially a little confused when the playground did not return the expected results.
Having integrated timezones would be a great help when experimenting with the time
package.

[rsc]

Comment 4:

[The time for maybe has passed.]

Labels changed: removed go1.1maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 5:

Labels changed: added go1.2maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 6:

Labels changed: added documentation.

[robpike]

Comment 7:

Issue #6432 has been merged into this issue.

[rsc]

Comment 8:

We have a plan for this but it's not tied to the release.

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-someday, go1.2maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 9:

Labels changed: added go1.3maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 10:

Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

[adg]

Comment 11:

Labels changed: added repo-playground.

[minux]

Comment 12:

Given that the NaCl-based playground does have (faked) file system access,
I suggest we fix this before 1.3. Seems straightforward to fix.

Labels changed: added release-go1.3, removed priority-later, release-none.

[adg]

Comment 13:

Agreed. Now that the NaCl changes are (almost?) merged, it'll be easy for me to include
this in the playground.

Owner changed to @adg.

[rsc]

Comment 14:

not blocking release

Labels changed: added release-none, removed release-go1.3.

[adg]

Comment 15:

The obvious way to fix this is to put /usr/share/zoneinfo into a zip file and use that
as the fake filesystem in each playground nacl binary. That zip file is 1.6M. Not sure
it's worth adding this bloat to every playground executable for such minor benefit.
Thoughts?