Re^4: Inscrutable test failure

I think I'm still missing some aspect of your suggestion to use a static timestamp in the tests. If I had it test is_weekday(1193435566) (that being the current time as I type this) and the test object was configured such that Friday is a weekday and Saturday is a weekend, then it would respond by saying that the static time is a weekday when run in the US and (correctly, but not consistently) that it is not a weekday when run in Australia.

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Re^5: Inscrutable test failure by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 26, 2007 at 22:06 UTC
My point was that your test results will always remain reproducible when you use fixed timestamps. But your explanation also showed me another aspect that I hadn't fully grasped yet - using timestamps in GMT will always need careful adaption to the local timezone because the (calendar) date will be different between the two timezones.	[reply]
Re^6: Inscrutable test failure by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Oct 26, 2007 at 22:23 UTC
Yeah... That (calendar) date issue is why I introduced Date::Manip and dynamically-determined dates to the tests in the first place. I'd really like to get rid of it without either introducing dependencies on which timezone the test is run in or reproducing the `is_weekday` logic in the test (which seems like it would defeat the test's purpose, since it would also reproduce any bugs in the original), but I have no idea how to do so.	[reply] [d/l]