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.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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