I wrote a Golang program that runs on OpenWRT.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main(){
fmt.Println(time.Now())
}
When I run this program on my Macbook, I always get the correct local time.
However, when running this program on OpenWRT, I always get UTC time.
I have set the time zone and time of OpenWRT. When I execute uci show system
, I can see the right time zone. When I execute date
the right local time can be display correctly.
So my question is, how do I get the correct local time using Golang's time.Now() on OpenWRT?
The root of my problem is that my OpenWRT lacks the zoneinfo package. So I run opkg update && opkg install zoneinfo-xxx
first.
This is part of go/src/time/zoneinfo_unix.go:
func initLocal() {
// consult $TZ to find the time zone to use.
// no $TZ means use the system default /etc/localtime.
// $TZ="" means use UTC.
// $TZ="foo" means use /usr/share/zoneinfo/foo.
...
}
According to this file, if there is no "TZ" variable, Golang will use the time zone pointed to by /etc/localtime when calling time.Now().
Then I set time zone at /etc/config/system
(option zonename 'xxxxxx') and run /etc/init.d/system restart
. Finally, I can get the correct time.Now().