[issue10213] tests shouldn't fail with unset timezone

Dirkjan Ochtman report at bugs.python.org
Thu Oct 28 09:24:54 CEST 2010


Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> added the comment:

You can easily reproduce (at least on Gentoo) by copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory to /etc/localtime.

By checking for this exact message, I don't think the chance is very high that we're hiding a Python bug. I also think that Python tests should test Python; if we see this message, we know we can't reliably test Python, in which case I think a skipped test (hey, we can't test this!) is better than a failed test (implication that Python failed).

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