[Zope3-dev] Re: Daylight savings unittest errors

[Jim Fulton]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>I was wondering if anyone had taken a look at a couple items I filed in the 
>>collector 2 weeks ago relating to daylight savings time, along with patches:
>>
>>   http://collector.zope.org/Zope3-dev/159
>>   http://collector.zope.org/Zope3-dev/160
>>
>>I'm still getting 6 unittest failures on my FreeBSD 4.8 machine (now 
>>running Python 2.2.3).  The code I suggested patches for seems wrong to me, 
>>but I'm puzzled why the automatic reports posted to the list show no 
>>failures - so I'm scratching my head a bit over this.
> 
> 
> I can't reproduce your test failure of checkFullTimeStamp() in
> test_timestamp.py.  But looking at the code in _timestamp.c, I get the
> feeling that it is utterly incomprehensible, so I wouldn't be
> surprised there's a bug.
> 
> Is there anyone around who understands the conversions in _timestamp.c?

I think so. First, _timestamp.c *only* deals with utc. So I can't imagine
that it contains a DST bug.

Jim

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