rest.Date doesn't work on minimal devices

[svenwiltink]

When testing my updated version of k8s/external-dns I ran into the issue that the timezone Europe/Amsterdam could not be found. This is because the minimal image doesn't include timezone data.

At https://github.com/transip/gotransip/blob/master/rest/response.go#L46 we try to load the time in the Europe/Amsterdam zone. Are we sure the date is printed in that zone. It would be much better to have the time in UTC if that is the case.

[vansante]

Go 1.15 fixes this problem with this new feature right?

https://golang.org/doc/go1.15#time/tzdata

[Jille]

We ran into the same problem: kubernetes-sigs/external-dns#2284

[SimeonPoot]

+1 I'm running into the same problem with External-Dns... making it not usable, how can this be fixed?