Subject: bug#29987: closed (Re: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date')

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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:20:02 +0000

Your bug report

#29987: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date'

which was filed against the automake package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date'
From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 09:19:08 +0000 (UTC)
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i believe this was fixed for automake-1.16.2
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=c64fa5a2bdbff8874e13aa7ad179c45a5aa52f29

from NEWS:
  - The automake test txinfo-vtexi4.sh no longer fails when localtime
    and UTC cross a day boundary.

Subject: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date'
From: Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:52:17 +0100
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When Running the test suite soon after midnight with CET time zone the
"t/txinfo-vtexi4.sh" test fails. 

"LC_ALL=C date" outputs the locale time whereas makeinfo use UTC timezone.

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mthl@localhost:~/src/automake$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
C'est logiciel libre, vous êtes libre de le modifier et de le redistribuer.
Ce logiciel n'est accompagné d'ABSOLUMENT AUCUNE GARANTIE, dans les limites
autorisées par la loi applicable.
Écrit par David MacKenzie.
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