Re: Cygwin 7.1RC2 timestamp Regression Test Failures

Tom,
Bruce,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:33:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com> writes:
> > While running the regression tests to investigate other issues, I noticed
> > a repeated failure that I had not seen before 7.1RC2. The timestamp
> > test now always fails. See attached for details.
>
> Specifically:
>
> : Some of the queries in the "timestamp" test will fail if you run the
> : test on the day of a daylight-savings time changeover, or the day before
> : or after one. These queries assume that the intervals between midnight
> : yesterday, midnight today and midnight tomorrow are exactly twenty-four
> : hours -- which is wrong if daylight-savings time went into or out of
> : effect meanwhile.

Thanks for the responses. The timestamp test ran without failures today.

Jason

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