id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
12998	RSS feed test fails in various situations due to time check	Leo Shklovskii	nobody	"{{{
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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

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