[issue25168] test_datetime.test_strptime() random failures on "s390x SLES" buildbots

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

I just discovered Issue 20220 about a similar story with a tarfile test case. It looks like this is caused by the same underlying C library quirk, so I am closing this as a duplicate. Using Antoine’s reproducer there I triggered both this datetime failure and the tarfile failure:

TZ='America/New_York' ./python -m test -v test_imaplib test_tarfile test_datetime

Also Serhiy I discovered Issue 6478 about the strptime() cache which has patches trying to do a similar thing to your patch.

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resolution:  -> duplicate
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> test_datetime, test_tarfile, test_strptime time zone failures

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