Setting timezone globally in golang

Question

I\'m trying to modify golang timezone for my application

I have took a look at time package, initializing timezone happens in

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Answer 1

I may be late but setting timezone in a global env is not a reliable approach. It should be set globally in a variable or in a struct. The below is an example of timezone set in a variable. Also in Go Playground

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    if err := setTimezone("America/Los_Angeles"); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err) // most likely timezone not loaded in Docker OS
    }
    t := getTime(time.Now())
    fmt.Println(t)
}

var loc *time.Location

func setTimezone(tz string) error {
    location, err := time.LoadLocation("America/Los_Angeles")
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    loc = location
    return nil
}

func getTime(t time.Time) time.Time {
    return t.In(loc)
}