That seems to be an issue with the playground: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12388" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12388</a><p>It seems counter-intuitive to me that the behavior of time.Parse would depend on a &quot;system location&quot;, but apparently it&#x27;s by design.