How to get the current timestamp in other timezones in Golang?

Question

I need to get the current time in different time-zones.

Currently I know that we can do the following:

t := time.Now() fmt.Println("Location:", t.Location(), ":Time:", t) utc, err := time.LoadLocation("America/New_York") if err != nil {     fmt.Println("err: ", err.Error()) } fmt.Println("Location:", utc, ":Time:", t.In(utc)) 

The LoadLocation name is taken to be a location name corresponding to a file in the IANA Time Zone database, such as "America/New_York".

Is there a simpler way to get the current time, if the country name, or the GMT offset is given e.g +530 for India?

Edit: I would also want to support Day light savings.

Answer 1

//init the loc loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("Asia/Shanghai")  //set timezone,   now := time.Now().In(loc) 

Answer 2

No, that is the best way. You can create your custom Location using FixedZone and use that custom location.

FixedZone returns a Location that always uses the given zone name and offset (seconds east of UTC).