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test-parse-date: defines explicit start/end dates for DST

Prior to this patch, DST times where tested by specifying a custom TZ
environment variable that didn't defined DST transition times.

Due to a bug in glibc, the test fail on 32bits platforms that use timezone
files generated by zic from tzcode >= 2014c (glibc >= 2.20).

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19738

By defining explicit transition times for DST in the TZ environment variable,
the test is now independant to how the system guess those transition times.

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
python run-tests.py

See https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WritingTests for
more information on writing tests.