IST time zone error in time package go golang - go

Question

I need to convert any given time zone in RFC3339 format to system time in RFC3339 format.But for few time zone like IST it is throwing the error and the time is still in UTC.
For conversion which function service as better? time.parse or time.In.
I tried to convert the UTC to IST but it failed.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//now time
now := time.Now()
fmt.Println("now ", now)
zone, _ := now.Zone()
fmt.Println("zone->", zone)
ll, llerr := time.LoadLocation(zone)
fmt.Println("Load Location", ll, llerr)
// Convert the given time to system based time zone
t, err := time.ParseInLocation(time.RFC3339, "2017-04-25T23:03:00Z", ll)
fmt.Println("t - parsein", t)
fmt.Println("err - parsein", err)
//fmt.Println("t2 - parse", t.In(ll))
}
Error : unknown time zone IST
Expected: Need to convert any time zone to system time zone.

Answer 1

You can't load Indian IST time zone by that name because the name "IST" is ambiguous. It could mean India, Ireland, Israel, etc. time zones, which have different zone offsets and rules. For details, see Why is time.Parse not using the timezone?
If IST is your local zone, the time.Local variable will denote that time zone. If you have a time.Time, you can "switch" to another zone using Time.In(), also Time.Local() returns the time in your local zone.
Of course this code would "break" when ran in another zone. To make sure it behaves the same everywhere, load the Indian IST zone explicitly like this:
loc, err := time.LoadLocation("Asia/Kolkata")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(time.Now())
fmt.Println(time.Now().In(loc))
On the Go Playground it will output:
2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC m=+0.000000001
2009-11-11 04:30:00 +0530 IST