Here's the history of this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1821
Great example of a test that only failed for some developers in one continent but not others. By randomizing things like this, we know that the stuff actually works for users in all possible tzs/locales, and it also reproduces for developers regardless of where they are. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@cs.put.poznan.pl> wrote: >> crazy thought: what if instead of ignoring it in these checks, we force >> set it to UTC? either in ant or in the test runner .. whichever makes > > We actually randomize TimeZone (and this property as a side effect) in > LuceneTestCase... I didn't write that though so I don't know if > removing it is a good idea. It definitely adds fun to watch logs > emitted in different time formats when the locale/ time zone is > randomized... > > Dawid > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > -- lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org