Can't build phobos

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On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 23:41:27 UTC, Freddy wrote:
> I am currently working on a phobos fork to include associative
> ranges, however the unittest fail when i try to build. How am a
> supposed test any unittests that i add.
> link:https://github.com/Superstar64/phobos/tree/associative_ranges
>
> $ ../dmd/src/dmd |head -1
> DMD32 D Compiler v2.066-devel-9d6cef9
>
>
> 0.030s PASS std.algorithm
> 0.023s PASS std.array
> 0.034s PASS std.ascii
> 0.001s PASS std.base64
> 0.006s PASS std.bigint
> 0.003s PASS std.bitmanip
> 0.000s PASS std.complex
> 0.002s PASS std.concurrency
> 0.023s PASS std.conv
> 0.000s PASS std.cstream
> 0.001s PASS std.csv
> ****** FAIL std.datetime
> core.exception.AssertError at std/datetime.d(1398): [2012-Apr-30
> 01:00:00] [2012-Apr-30 00:00:00]
> ----------------
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(void
> std.datetime.SysTime.__unittestL1363_26()+0xd08) [0x41b35ea0]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(void
> std.datetime.__modtest()+0xdd) [0x41d6e6ed]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/test_runner(bool
> test_runner.tester()+0x104) [0x8049524]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(runModuleUnitTests+0xd1)
> [0x42cce4c1]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(void
> rt.dmain2._d_run_main(int, char**, extern (C) int
> function(char[][])*).runAll()+0x2d) [0x42cedd45]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(void
> rt.dmain2._d_run_main(int, char**, extern (C) int
> function(char[][])*).tryExec(scope void delegate())+0x2a)
> [0x42cedcea]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/libphobos2-ut.so(_d_run_main+0x152)
> [0x42cedc5a]
> generated/linux/debug/32/unittest/test_runner(main+0x14)
> [0x804968c]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) 
> [0x430a2a83]


That's curious. I cannot reproduce this... Unfortunately I don't 
have time to look into it right now. Is it possible that the test 
uses the system's timezone definitions, which might somehow be 
buggy on your computer?