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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:02:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: [lang] Failing tests in lang/trunk due to time zone
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>,
	"Bruno P. Kinoshita" <brunodepaulak@yahoo.com.br>
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Note that each JRE/JDK version has it's own version of the TZ database. It
is also possible to update an installed JRE/JDK with the latest TZ database
info.

Gary


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <
brunodepaulak@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> LANG-942 and LANG-943 were related to tests failing due to time zones. The
> latter is related to a specific time zone (America/Sao_Paulo), and only
> happens in my environment because it is using the day that DST started in
> 2005.
>
> For the sake of curiosity, I set up a Jenkins job to build commons-lang
> from the trunk and `mvn clean test -e -X -Duser.timezone=${timezone}` for
> each given time zone (it is a multi config job with a user axis, fwiw).
>
> The results can be seen here:
> http://builds.tupilabs.com/view/Apache%20Software%20Foundation/job/commons-lang-timezone/
>
> There are many different errors, inclusive for time zones within Brazil
> that work (America/Maceio, while America/Sao_Paulo fails) and others in
> Asia, Australia, Mexico, etc).
>
> I think some tests can be rewritten to be time zone agnostic, or we may
> have some hidden bug too.
>
> Just food for thought :^) not a blocker for new releases I think. The job
> took quite some time to finish, but the URL is parameterized, so in the
> future I plan to run it against tags and for different JDK's too.
>
> Bruno P. Kinoshita
> http://kinoshita.eti.br
> http://tupilabs.com
>
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