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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:25:20 -0700
From: Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>
To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Cc: dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: APR time test failing
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 from wrowe@rowe-clan.net on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:17:49PM -0500

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:17:49PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> At 09:51 PM 5/20/2002, Jon Travis wrote:
> >On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:47:24PM -0700, Jon Travis wrote:
> > > My time test is failing.  I get a mismatch:
> > >
> > > checking localtime explode == GMT implode                 mismatch
> > >               apr_now()                    1021948993979908
> > >               apr_implode() returned       1021981393979908
> > >               error delta was              32400000000
> > >               should have been             0
> >
> >Sorry, should have been more thorough.
> >
> >This problem only occurs under Windows for me.  Under UNIX the test
> >works fine.
> 
> 9 hour delta... evidently we missed timezone data, and then MIS
> compensated for the DST delta [otherwise, where would 9hrs -> PST
> come from... PDT should be 7hrs from GMT, no?]

Yeah, it's an interesting one -- apr_time_now() should be GMT though, and
not have anything to do with timezones (not saying they aren't playing a 
part in this issue, though).

This problem manifested itself when a program I was running on Windows
had a hard time communicating with a program under UNIX.  Both used
apr_time_now() to determine the current time, and I guess they came up
with different answers.

-- Jon