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author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-01-01 04:18:51 (GMT) |
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committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-01-01 04:18:51 (GMT) |
commit | 36087edc05b6ccb4a4850ac579ad721d1a72ffdd (patch) | |
tree | 0accd5c46eb94e620f849c267a407b412860beb1 /Lib/test | |
parent | 88ad134e3612b32026a9cfb188c55b6ba1664094 (diff) | |
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The failure of the last-second addition to the timezone coversion test is
understood now: it can't work. Added comments explaining why (it's "the
usual"-- unrepresentable hours in local time --but in a slightly different
guise).
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_datetime.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py index 3ef0772..4a7aa60 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py @@ -2591,7 +2591,6 @@ class TestTimezoneConversions(unittest.TestCase): dston = datetimetz(2002, 4, 7, 2) dstoff = datetimetz(2002, 10, 27, 2) - # Check a time that's inside DST. def checkinside(self, dt, tz, utc, dston, dstoff): self.assertEqual(dt.dst(), HOUR) @@ -2691,9 +2690,18 @@ class TestTimezoneConversions(unittest.TestCase): # hours" don't overlap. self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Pacific) self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Pacific, Eastern) - # XXX These fail! - #self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Central) - #self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Central, Eastern) + # OTOH, these fail! Don't enable them. The difficulty is that + # the edge case tests assume that every hour is representable in + # the "utc" class. This is always true for a fixed-offset tzinfo + # class (lke utc_real and utc_fake), but not for Eastern or Central. + # For these adjacent DST-aware time zones, the range of time offsets + # tested ends up creating hours in the one that aren't representable + # in the other. For the same reason, we would see failures in the + # Eastern vs Pacific tests too if we added 3*HOUR to the list of + # offset deltas in convert_between_tz_and_utc(). + # + # self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Central) # can't work + # self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Central, Eastern) # can't work def test_suite(): |