Branch: refs/heads/master
  Home:   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos
  Commit: f4067cf33df4896332e767201309d620f0144601
      https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/f4067cf33df4896332e767201309d620f0144601
  Author: Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com>
  Date:   2015-04-26 (Sun, 26 Apr 2015)

  Changed paths:
    M std/datetime.d

  Log Message:
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  Add workaround in std.datetime unit tests for bug in FreeBSD 9+.

The std.datetime unit tests currently fail on FreeBSD 9+ because of a bug in FreeBSD itself (which it looks like Martin reported):

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168862

tzname[] is set incorrectly in many time zones - including America/Los_Angeles, which is what's causing the unit test failures in std.datetime.

Sadly, the bug report has been around for almost 3 years without the bug getting fixed (with the report including a patch no less), so I don't know how long it will take them, and it just seems better to version out the test in FreeBSD for now, since it's potentially a blocker for anyone developing Phobos on FreeBSD.

The autotester doesn't exhibit the problem, because it's using FreeBSD 8.x.


  Commit: 0b0cb7ff3921da41e488dd37cb8ec400cbfd7410
      https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/0b0cb7ff3921da41e488dd37cb8ec400cbfd7410
  Author: Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com>
  Date:   2015-04-27 (Mon, 27 Apr 2015)

  Changed paths:
    M std/datetime.d

  Log Message:
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  Merge pull request #3235 from jmdavis/freebsd_workaround

Add workaround in std.datetime unit tests for bug in FreeBSD 9+.


Compare: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/compare/9ec468ee32fe...0b0cb7ff3921