On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 11:52, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Going from various problems I saw with systems with smaller time wraps, > setting a time after wrap occurs misses most of the problems which wall > occur. Many systems will work fine with either 'negative' or 'smaller dates' > but crash, burn, etc when running when the counter wraps around. I would > suggest setting the test date to -N minutes before wrap over to run a first > set of tests, and then N minutes after the wrap to run a second set of tests. > This would hopefully catch programs which are worse off.
Testing the rollover could be done in later stages. I can imagine we'll have enough just by setting the date in the future and getting those magic glibc flags to not cause build fails. Alex
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