Gorm Location set to "" for time.Time fields apart from created at and update at

Your Question

I am using Postgres and when I declare a struct with a field of type time.Time, the location is set to "" even that I set the timezone in the connection. In the gorm configuration I changed the nowFunc to set the timezone, but this only works for the created at and updated at fields, not for other time.Time fields. As an example:

type TestStruct struct {
  ID                     int
  CreatedAt       time.Time
  UpdatedAt      time.Time
  StartTime.       time.Time
} 

And I use the following gorm config:

gorm.Open(postgres.New(postgres.Config{
        Conn: gc.Db,
    }), &gorm.Config{
        NowFunc: func() time.Time {
            return time.Now().UTC().Truncate(time.Second)
        },
    })

The issue with this is that, if I create the TestStruct with an UTC location, and then I try to do assert.Equal with the one I retrieve form the database, the only difference is the loc between expected.StartTime (loc is nil) and actual.StartTime (loc is "")

The document you expected this should be explained

I only found this post in Stackoverflow related to my question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71019353/how-to-set-default-timezone-on-gorm-time-time-data-type)

Expected answer

I think all the time.Time fields should have the timezone set to declared timezone in the connection, or maybe I am missing something?

Comment From: saeidee

Have you tried changing your application's default timezone(You need to put this code before using any time package functions)? if yes could you share your DSN?

os.Setenv("TZ", "Europe/Istanbul)

Comment From: manuelarte

yes, I tried and still get loc = ""

Comment From: lox

I get this issue too. @saeidee why was this closed?