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From: Ander Juaristi <a@juaristi.eus>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [nft PATCH] tests/py: Set a fixed timezone in nft-test.py
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:06:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db71e3276085bccce877215254bbfc21@juaristi.eus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118183459.qkqztuc5pn4fezzn@salvia>

El 2019-11-18 19:34, Pablo Neira Ayuso escribió:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 10:32:18PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
>> Payload generated for 'meta time' matches depends on host's timezone 
>> and
>> DST setting. To produce constant output, set a fixed timezone in
>> nft-test.py. Choose UTC-2 since most payloads are correct then, adjust
>> the remaining two tests.
> 
> This means that the ruleset listing for the user changes when daylight
> saving occurs, right? Just like it happened to our tests.

It shouldn't, as the date is converted to a timestamp that doesn't take 
DST into account (using timegm(3), which is Linux-specific).

The problem is that payloads are hard-coded in the tests.

Correct me if I'm missing something.

> 
> Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-16 21:32 [nft PATCH] tests/py: Set a fixed timezone in nft-test.py Phil Sutter
2019-11-18  8:20 ` Ander Juaristi
2019-11-18 18:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-11-19  0:20   ` Phil Sutter
2019-11-19 11:06   ` Ander Juaristi [this message]
2019-11-19 22:12     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-11-19 22:20       ` Phil Sutter
2019-11-19 22:33         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-11-20 11:45           ` Phil Sutter

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