128125 - aol.com - browsertest doesn't understand date correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[timeless]

The YearFromToday row results in Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:00:00 UTC give or take .. [ie, nc4, moz, winEmbed].

It doesn't matter whether your clock is set correctly (my laptop has a y2002 problem).

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Here's the problem: the variable |now| in their script is hard-coded:

               var now =  new Date(99,6,28)

In my timezone this is:

               Wed Jul 28 1999 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

The results in their YearFromToday row read like this on my box:

    DATE          METHOD
YearFromToday  now.getTime() + (24*60*60*1000*365)
                 RESULT
               Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:00:00 GMT


So - this is basically correct, given the hard-coded value for |now|.
It's just one day short. This is because 2000 happened to be a leap year,
so the hard-coded value 24*60*60*1000*365 is one day too little ...

I don't know why they hard-coded |now|; most testsuites do this:

               var now = new Date();

Comment 2

[brandi]

Looking for a tech contact...

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

oops

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

ain't gonna happen.

Comment 7

[RNicoletto]

The bug is still here.

Comment 8

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

While the bug is indeed still there, it's just an issue in some test suite which looks limited and outdated anyway. I don't think we should spend time on finding a contact and passing on a fix at this point, and hope noone will disagree with me closing this bug.