Hello, Does anyone know if there is a more elegant solution to this problem? I thought of doing this, but I was hoping there is a better, more programmatic perhaps, way of doing this.
Thanks, Otis On Sat, 10 November 2001, "Steve Loughran" wrote: > > As a short term hack why not add the unset command to ANT.bat or ant.sh (for > the latter you can put it in ~/.antrc). > > Better would be to fix your junit test case so that it works regardless of > the TZ of the user. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:01 PM > Subject: Failing Junit test only under Ant > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a unit test that uses Junit and deals with Dates. > > All Date operations are done in UTC time zone, so that is what Junit tests > expect. > > I have my environment variable TZ set to EST5EDT. > > > > When I run the unit test from the command line all tests pass. > > > > When I run the unit test from Ant it fails because all time values are off > by 5 hours (UTC is 5 hours ahead of my time zone). > > > > Has anyone encountered this? > > Does anyone have a solution? > > > > My solution was to unset my TZ environment variable. > > As soon as I did that the tests started running fine even from Ant. > > > > However, I don't quite like that solution as it forces my to modify my > environment in order to let the tests pass when I run them under Ant. Now > `date` gives me time in GMT :( > > > > I would prefer it if I could do something within Ant to prevent it from > looking at my TZ. > > I tried fooling Ant like this: > > > > <property name="env.TZ" value="UTC"/> > > > > However, that had no effect on the outcome. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Otis > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life > > Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web > > http://www.ivillage.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web http://www.ivillage.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
