Golang : Get local time and equivalent time in different time zone

Problem :

You want to show your website visitor the local time(on your server) and the equivalent time in another time zone. For example, KL(server time) and New York time.

Solution :

1. Get local server time.
2. Convert the local time to target timezone with time.In() function.

For example :

 package main

 import (
 "fmt"
 "time"
 )

 func main() {

 t := time.Now()

 fmt.Println("Location : ", t.Location(), " Time : ", t)

 // get the list of available time zones
 location, err := time.LoadLocation("America/New_York")

 if err != nil {
 fmt.Println(err)
 }

 fmt.Println("Location : ", location, " Time : ", t.In(location))
 }

Sample output :

Location : Local Time : 2015-07-30 16:39:28.158021072 +0800 MYT

Location : America/New_York Time : 2015-07-30 04:39:28.158021072 -0400 EDT

References :

http://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.In