[dmd-internals] Status of dmd pull requests

[Daniel Murphy]

Heh.  Does that mean I'm the first person to run the std.datetime
tests on linux in this hemisphere?

If the fix gets merged in soon I'll be able to re-run the tester and
get some meaningful phobos results.  I've just added the druntime and
phobos pulls to the tester.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:19:18 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:05:20 Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> > Sydney (+10 ?)
>> > ~$ cat /etc/timezone
>> > Australia/NSW
>>
>> *Sigh* It looks like something is messed up with std.datetime dealing with
>> that timezone. It looks like I get to go bug hunting...
>
> LOL. Ouch. _That_ was dumb of me. I was trying to get the order of several
> time zones (including local time) in the tests, and somehow I managed to
> forget that diffing times ignores time zones (as it should). So, I subtracted
> the current time in UTC from the current time in local time (which inevitably
> is a matter of microseconds, because it's just the difference between two calls
> to Clock.currTime). The result is inevitably positive. West of UTC (as I and
> the autotester are) needs the result to be positive to order the time zones
> correctly, whereas east of UTC (as you are) needs the result to be negative -
> but it's positive. So, the time zones are in the wrong order for you, and the
> results are wrong. _This_ is why I like it when unit tests are dead stupid
> rather than trying to be clever and concise. It's so easy to screw them up
> when you try and be clever and concise. But no one likes the large number of
> dead stupid unit tests in std.datetime, so I've been trying to make them
> clever and concise. Bleh.
>
> Oh well. At least I know what the problem is now. It shouldn't take very long
> to fix it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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