No worries.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:39:10 Jonathan M Davis 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. > > Blast it. It's worse than that. Your DST changes on April 1st, and apparently > my tests can't cope with that at the moment. I'll have to rework them a bit, > and it's going to take some time. I should have them fixed within a day or so, > but I'm not going to get them sorted out tonight. > > - 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
