[Zope-Coders] Win32 Test Failures

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:38:19 -0500


Chris Withers wrote:
> Also, there are still frequent but intermittent failures in the DateTime tests,
> which ain't good. Anyone got any idea what these might be about?

Things to look at:

1) Conversions between floating point and integers.  Some DateTime tests 
use the current time, and if time.time() returns 1013027600.000999, 
different environments with different levels of precision will interpret 
that differently.

2) Time zones.  It's hard for us to test any zone but US/Eastern.  Tests 
shouldn't be sensitive to time zones, of course.

Seems like there was something else but it has escaped my memory...

Shane