Re: New horology failure

>>I get this since Tom's commit.
>
>>--- ./results/horology.out Sun May 23 11:39:49 2004
>>***************
>>*** 1787,1796 ****
>>! | Sat Sep 22 18:19:20 2001 PDT | @ 34 years
> | Fri Sep 22 18:19:20 1967 PDT
>>[...]
>>--- 1787,1796 ----
>>! | Sat Sep 22 18:19:20 2001 PDT | @ 34 years
> | Fri Sep 22 18:19:20 1967 PST
>>[...]
>
>I got the same with snapshot-20040521 yesterday [i.e. 2004-05-22]
>afternoon when I ran make check. But only once. make installcheck
>passed all tests, and the failure didn't reappear when I tried make
>check again.
>
>I just got the failure again with make check after having configured
>with a new install directory. My guess is that horology needs some
>datafile from the install location.

Not only a file, but the entire directory "<pginstall>/share/timezone",
with subdirs.

Without it, it will parse "PST8PDT" using the default DST rules. If it
finds the file (named PST8PDT in that directory), it will use the
correct DST rules.

//Magnus