Heh. Does that mean I'm the first person to run the std.datetime tests on linux in this hemisphere?
If the fix gets merged in soon I'll be able to re-run the tester and get some meaningful phobos results. I've just added the druntime and phobos pulls to the tester. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:19:18 Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:05:20 Daniel Murphy wrote: >> > Sydney (+10 ?) >> > ~$ cat /etc/timezone >> > Australia/NSW >> >> *Sigh* It looks like something is messed up with std.datetime dealing with >> that timezone. It looks like I get to go bug hunting... > > LOL. Ouch. _That_ was dumb of me. I was trying to get the order of several > time zones (including local time) in the tests, and somehow I managed to > forget that diffing times ignores time zones (as it should). So, I subtracted > the current time in UTC from the current time in local time (which inevitably > is a matter of microseconds, because it's just the difference between two > calls > to Clock.currTime). The result is inevitably positive. West of UTC (as I and > the autotester are) needs the result to be positive to order the time zones > correctly, whereas east of UTC (as you are) needs the result to be negative - > but it's positive. So, the time zones are in the wrong order for you, and the > results are wrong. _This_ is why I like it when unit tests are dead stupid > rather than trying to be clever and concise. It's so easy to screw them up > when you try and be clever and concise. But no one likes the large number of > dead stupid unit tests in std.datetime, so I've been trying to make them > clever and concise. Bleh. > > Oh well. At least I know what the problem is now. It shouldn't take very long > to fix it. > > - Jonathan M Davis > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals > _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
