proposal: time/zones: new package for time zones list

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proposal: time/zones: new package for time zones list #70203

Open srikantgudi opened 5 hours ago

srikantgudi commented 5 hours ago

It would be good to add a package time/zones or a function time.LoadLocations() to load all zones in IANA database.

This could be used as

zones := time.LoadLocations()

gabyhelp commented 5 hours ago

Related Issues and Documentation

Package time > type Location ¶ > func LoadLocationFromTZData ¶ 1.10
Package time > type Location ¶ > func LoadLocation ¶

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ianlancetaylor commented 4 hours ago

This seems a bit special purpose. Why should it be in the standard library? Are there other languages that provide this functionality in their standard library?