RSS feed test fails in various situations due to time check

[Leo Shklovskii]

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FAIL: test_rss2_feed (regressiontests.syndication.tests.SyndicationFeedTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Code\django\tests\regressiontests\syndication\tests.py", line 67, in
test_rss2_feed
    'copyright': 'Copyright (c) 2007, Sally Smith',
  File "C:\Code\django\tests\regressiontests\syndication\tests.py", line 25, in
assertChildNodeContent
    elem.getElementsByTagName(k)[0].firstChild.wholeText, v)
AssertionError: u'Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:30:00 -0800' != 'Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:30:00
 -0600'
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I'm in the Pacific Time Zone and I suspect this has to do with the note here: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#time-zone

An easy solution to this would just be to remove checking for the lastBuildDate in tests/regressiontests/syndication/tests.py:64 in r12623

[Russell Keith-Magee]

This isn't Windows specific - In 1.2, it also affects any test setup where TIMEZONE=None and the system timezone isn't UTC.

[anonymous]

Is the workaround then to just set TIMEZONE in my settings for running the tests?

[Karen Tracey]

The end of DST in the US has revealed another problem with the time check in this test, see: #13113

[Karen Tracey]

Replying to anonymous:

Is the workaround then to just set TIMEZONE in my settings for running the tests?

That doesn't work on Windows, and if someone wants/needs to run with TIMEZONE=None it's also not good to have to put something else in the test settings file.

[Karen Tracey]

Replying to kmtracey:

The end of DST in the US has revealed another problem with the time check in this test, see: #13113

That would be the start of DST, not the end. Really missing my hour of sleep.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [12791]) Fixed #12998 -- Corrected handling of time zones in syndication framework.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.2 deleted