Subject: test failure when running on Ubuntu 8.04 caused by timezone incompatibility
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.finance.mifos.devel
Date: 2008-05-13 22:16:42 GMT (34 weeks, 3 days and 58 minutes ago)
I recently tried to build and test the mifos 1.1 trunk on a recent Ubuntu Linux machine, Hardy Heron 8.04. I had a problem with the timezone, here is how I resolved it.
Symptom:
DateUtilsTest.testParseBrowserDateFields failed, along with other
tests in this file.
Cause:
Ubuntu 8.04 appears to use SystemV-style time zones; in
other words, SystemV/PST8PDT instead of US/Pacific.
Java 1.5 has a bug that does not recognize SystemV timezones correctly
in all cases:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6456628
This means the Java system property user.timezone is not set
correctly.
How to fix:
Do one of these:
* set the TZ environment variable to a non-SystemV timezone
(US/Pacific or whatever your timezone is)
$ export TZ=US/Pacific
* link the /etc/localtime to the correct timezone file under
/usr/share/zoneinfo
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
cheers
adam
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Adam Feuer <adamf at pobox dot com>
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