585612 - date related failures in JS shell in non-standard locales

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 530974

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Paul Biggar]

I'm seeing a large number of date related failures when running reftests using the JS shell. I believe this is due to my locale, which is LANG=en_GB.utf8. However, I can't seem to get rid of them even by setting LANG=C during configure, make or ref-tests.

I asked on IRC:

  jbramley: JavaScript's date API doesn't allow the code to specify the time zone, so it won't work unless you specify an exemplar output for every time zone, or calculate it separately. (Neither case is likely to happen.)

  jbramley: the test string is really long, and there are many locales. I decided that it wasn't worth the effort, but I would welcome a change.


So it looks like it won't be fixed soon, but I'll leave this open for future searchers.


Here's the full list:

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REGRESSIONS
    ecma/Date/15.9.3.1-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.3.2-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.3.8-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.3.8-2.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.22-3.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.22-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.23-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.23-15.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.23-17.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-2.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-3.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-4.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-5.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-6.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-7.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.24-8.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.27-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.25-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.26-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.28-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.29-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.32-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.30-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.31-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.33-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.35-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-2.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-3.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-4.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-5.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-6.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.37-1.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.36-7.js
    ecma/Date/15.9.5.8.js
    ecma_3/Date/15.9.5.6.js
    ecma_5/Date/15.9.4.2.js
    js1_5/extensions/toLocaleFormat-01.js
    js1_5/extensions/toLocaleFormat-02.js
    js1_8/extensions/regress-394709.js
    js1_8/extensions/regress-422269.js
FAIL

Comment 1

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

FWIW, I've just set my desktop to California time :(