Workaround for failed test go test time with go version go1.18.1 in buildpack-deps:22.04-curl

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Hi all,

I hope you are all safe! With my openvscode-server container, I experienced the following issue: go test time (or go test all) fails with

panic: cannot load America/Los_Angeles for testing: unknown time zone America/Los_Angeles; you may want to use -tags=timetzdata

It seems that the test tries to read the file zoneinfo.zip from the non-existing (hard-coded?) directory /usr/lib/go-1.18/lib/time. I found a workaround and added it to my Containerfile. Let me know, if you have a more elegant solution. 😄 Probably fixed with the newer Go version 1.19., available as golang-1.19 in Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu).

Error message in Open VS Code Server terminal:

panic: cannot load America/Los_Angeles for testing: unknown time zone America/Los_Angeles; you may want to use -tags=timetzdata

goroutine 1 [running]:
time.initTestingZone()
        /usr/lib/go-1.18/src/time/internal_test.go:15 +0x128
sync.(*Once).doSlow(0x33?, 0x5b173e?)
        /usr/lib/go-1.18/src/sync/once.go:68 +0xc2
sync.(*Once).Do(...)
        /usr/lib/go-1.18/src/sync/once.go:59
time.ForceUSPacificForTesting()
        /usr/lib/go-1.18/src/time/export_test.go:18 +0x8f
time.init.0()
        /usr/lib/go-1.18/src/time/internal_test.go:9 +0x17
FAIL    time    0.004s
FAIL

Additional info:

• go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64
• Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Containerfile including the workaround:

FROM docker.io/gitpod/openvscode-server

USER root

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get upgrade -y && \
    apt-get install -y golang build-essential

RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install tzdata && \
    ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime && \
    dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

# Workaround to avoid failing tests with go time package
RUN mkdir -p /usr/lib/go-1.18/lib/time
ADD https://github.com/golang/go/raw/master/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip /usr/lib/go-1.18/lib/time/zoneinfo.zip
RUN chown -R openvscode-server:openvscode-server /usr/lib/go-1.18/lib/time

USER openvscode-server

ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "exec ${OPENVSCODE_SERVER_ROOT}/bin/openvscode-server --port ${TS_OVSCS_PORT} --connection-token ${TS_OVSCS_TKN} --host 0.0.0.0 \"${@}\"", "--"]

Steps to reproduce:
In Open VS Code Server terminal, run go test time