Backport of build: load time/tzdata on Windows into release/1.6.x #18688
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Backport
This PR is auto-generated from #18676 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.6.x.
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Nomad uses
time.LoadLocation()
to translate a periodic job time zone string value to atime.Location
. From godocs:So non-Unix systems require Go to be installed or
time/tzdata
to be imported, otherwise running periodic jobs with a specifictime_zone
value results in an error:This commit adds the
timetzdata
build tag on Windows to embed the time zone data into the final binary. This results in a slightly bigger binary, but fromtime/tzdata
godocs:Closes #18578
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