Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:09 pm, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> FWIW, I ran the regressions tests some time ago(probably before that
> change to glibc) . Since the tests are known
> to be broken wrt. time issues anyway (as well as currency, math and
> sorting), it's easy to overlook.

The time tests have never broken in this manner before on Red Hat.  When the 
original regression failure report was posted, I saw right away that this was 
not the run of the mill locale issue -- this was a real problem.  Regression 
testing must become a regularly scheduled activity, methinks.  In the RPM 
build process, we can control the locale to the extent that the tests will 
pass (except on DST days) reliably.  I am going to implement this for my next 
RPM set.  Along with a patch to this problem -- we _can_ patch around this, I 
believe, but it's not likely going to be an easy one.

We have gotten blind to the regular locale-induced failures -- this is not a 
good thing.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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