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I recently reviewed some code that did time calculations using
`time.UnixMicro(0).UTC()`. I commented that because time calculations
are independent of the location, they should drop the `.UTC()`, and they
replied that it made their tests fail.
I looked into it and eventually discovered it was because they were
using AddDate. Dramatically simplified, their code did something like:
orig := time.Date(2013, time.March, 23, 12, 00, 0, 0, time.UTC)
want := time.Date(2013, time.March, 23, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
epoch := time.UnixMicro(0)
days := int(orig.Sub(epoch).Hours() / 24)
got := epoch.AddDate(0, 0, days)
if !got.Equal(want) {
t.Errorf("ay caramba: %v vs %v", got.UTC(), want.UTC())
}
The issue is that their tests run in Pacific time, which is currently
PST (UTC-8) but was PDT (UTC-7) in January 1970.
It turns out they were implementing some business policy that really
cares abut calendar days so AddDate is correct, but it's certainly a bit
confusing!
The idea with this change is to remove the risk that readers make a
false shortcut in their mind: "Locations do not affect time
calculations". To do this we remove some text from the core time.Time
doc and shift it to the areas of the library that deal with these
intrinsically confusing operations.
Change-Id: I8200e9edef7d1cdd8516719e34814eb4b78d30a2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/526676
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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