time: ParseInLocation may return time with a location that yields an empty string

[aksdb]

Go version

1.23

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

[current playground]

What did you do?

I parse a time string using a known location name.
The resulting time ends up with the location name being empty, though.

	location, err := time.LoadLocation("Europe/Helsinki")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	t, err := time.ParseInLocation(time.RFC3339, "2022-09-29T13:00:00+02:00", location)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Expected: %s, Got: %s\n", location.String(), t.Location().String())

https://go.dev/play/p/WVdVLmBjkuL

What did you see happen?

The given example prints: Expected: Europe/Helsinki, Got:

What did you expect to see?

The given example prints: Expected: Europe/Helsinki, Got: Europe/Helsinki

[seankhliao]

I believe that's correct, it's an unnamed location with a fixed time offset of 2 hours (7200 secs).
It doesn't match Europe/Helsinki because at that time, Helsinki observes DST with an offset of +0300.

[aksdb]

Ah that makes sense; indeed when adjusting the parsed time to match the expected offset, it keeps the location info.
So I guess the solution to ensure the location would be to use t = t.In(location) afterwards to keep consistency.

Thanks for clarifying and sorry for the apparently unnecessary noise.