How can I extract the value of my current local time offset?

Question

I\'m struggling a bit trying to format and display some IBM mainframe TOD clock data. I want to format the data in both GMT and local time (as the default -- otherwise in the zo

Answer 1

I don't think it makes sense to manually convert time to another TZ. Use time.Time.In function:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func printTime(t time.Time) {
    zone, offset := t.Zone()
    fmt.Println(t.Format(time.Kitchen), "Zone:", zone, "Offset UTC:", offset)
}

func main() {
    printTime(time.Now())
    printTime(time.Now().UTC())

    loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("America/New_York")
    printTime(time.Now().In(loc))
}