[squeak-dev] Some failing tests in Squeak5.2alpha

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed Jun 13 12:34:10 UTC 2018


Hi Alistair,

The everlasting debate is about the time zone. Some say it is UTC, others 
say it is whatever time zone you're in. The test is failing, because it 
expects the value for UTC, while the method it uses (#asSeconds) was 
changed to use your current time zone.

Levente

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Alistair Grant wrote:

> Hi Levente,
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 14:02, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > There might be more, but these tests fail in Squeak5.2alpha:
>> >
>> > DateAndTimeLeapTest>>#testAsSeconds
>>
>> If you can answer the question "When the Squeak epoch is?", then this can
>> be fixed.
>
> 1 Jan 1901.
>
> (I haven't looked at the test, I'm battling with file timestamps on
> Windows in the VM at the moment).
>
> HTH,
> Alistair


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