makedate: wrong timezone offset if DST rules changed this year (
issue2511)
Python's time module sets timezone and altzone based on UTC offsets of
two dates: first and middle day of the current year. This approach
doesn't work on a year when DST rules change.
For example Russia abandoned winter time this year, so the correct UTC
offset should be +4 now, but time.timezone returns 3 hours difference
because that's what it was on 01.01.2011.
Related python issue: http://bugs.python.org/
issue1647654
#!/usr/bin/python
from mercurial.ui import ui
from mercurial.localrepo import localrepository
from mercurial.commands import add, commit, status
u = ui()
print '% creating repo'
repo = localrepository(u, '.', create=True)
f = open('test.py', 'w')
try:
f.write('foo\n')
finally:
f.close
print '% add and commit'
add(u, repo, 'test.py')
commit(u, repo, message='*')
status(u, repo, clean=True)
print '% change'
f = open('test.py', 'w')
try:
f.write('bar\n')
finally:
f.close()
# this would return clean instead of changed before the fix
status(u, repo, clean=True, modified=True)