We were able to fix things for him by running the tests with a TZ
environment variable set, to America/Los_Angeles.  I still don't
understand why we had to do this.  For me, with no TZ set, it just
works.  Where does the default come from, anyone know?

thanks,
K


On 8/14/06, Kevin Bourrillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> One of our team members is getting a spate of test failures that look like:
>
> junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: expected:<Thu Jul 31 18:15:30
> GMT-08:00 2008> but was:<Thu Jul 31 17:15:30 GMT-08:00 2008>
>
> or sometimes even the expected and actual appear identical.
>
> When I had this problem it turned out to be because I had a TZ
> variable set, and I unset it and that fixed it.  But in this guy's
> case, we can't see anything strange in his environment.  He's
> definitely using JDK 1.5.0_06 as are we...
>
> And if he just does a "new DateTime().toString()" it reports a time an
> hour earlier than now and it reports -08:00 even though we're in
> daylight time now so I think it should be -07:00.
>
> What the?
>
> Not sure if it could be related to his bleeding-edge version of ubuntu
> that he's using (dapper drake; I'm on breezy badger).
>
> Any ideas?  thanks,
>
> K
>

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