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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:00:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031070003.GA4458@blimp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225344554.10803.17.camel@maia.lan>

Sam Vilain, Thu, Oct 30, 2008 06:29:14 +0100:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:38 +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > I could not find what exactly does the ActiveState's Perl use for its stat
> > implementation (and honestly, have no motivation to look harder).
> > It seems to honor TZ, but the produced time does not seem to be either
> > local or GMT.
> 
> See, the difference is that the perl is portable and your patch isn't.

ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.

> Can you at least reveal how far out the value printed by the perl
> fragment was from the expected value, and what your TZ offset is in
> seconds.  It might be pointing to a deeper problem that could affect
> more than just this test case.

I tried TZ set to CET (my zone), GMT, and UTC. The difference was from
1200 sec to 3600.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 10:38 [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time Alex Riesen
2008-10-29 21:54 ` Jeff King
2008-10-30  7:26   ` Alex Riesen
2008-10-30  5:29 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-31  7:00   ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-10-31 12:59     ` Peter Harris
2008-10-31 13:45       ` Alex Riesen
2008-10-31 22:14     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-31 23:37       ` Alex Riesen
2008-11-01  0:23         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-01 14:24           ` Alex Riesen
2008-11-01 20:37             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-02 14:37               ` Alex Riesen
2008-11-02 16:05                 ` Johannes Schindelin

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