The failure of the last-second addition to the timezone coversion test is

understood now:  it can't work.  Added comments explaining why (it's "the
usual"-- unrepresentable hours in local time --but in a slightly different
guise).
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Tim Peters 2003-01-01 04:18:51 +00:00
parent 88ad134e36
commit 36087edc05
1 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -2591,7 +2591,6 @@ class TestTimezoneConversions(unittest.TestCase):
dston = datetimetz(2002, 4, 7, 2)
dstoff = datetimetz(2002, 10, 27, 2)
# Check a time that's inside DST.
def checkinside(self, dt, tz, utc, dston, dstoff):
self.assertEqual(dt.dst(), HOUR)
@ -2691,9 +2690,18 @@ class TestTimezoneConversions(unittest.TestCase):
# hours" don't overlap.
self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Pacific)
self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Pacific, Eastern)
# XXX These fail!
#self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Central)
#self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Central, Eastern)
# OTOH, these fail! Don't enable them. The difficulty is that
# the edge case tests assume that every hour is representable in
# the "utc" class. This is always true for a fixed-offset tzinfo
# class (lke utc_real and utc_fake), but not for Eastern or Central.
# For these adjacent DST-aware time zones, the range of time offsets
# tested ends up creating hours in the one that aren't representable
# in the other. For the same reason, we would see failures in the
# Eastern vs Pacific tests too if we added 3*HOUR to the list of
# offset deltas in convert_between_tz_and_utc().
#
# self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Eastern, Central) # can't work
# self.convert_between_tz_and_utc(Central, Eastern) # can't work
def test_suite():