I have been investigating this a little, DateTime module caches the timezone

very early in the initialisation process, so changing os.environ['TZ'] has
no effect. For now, the easiest is to set TZ environ variable to something
like 'Europe/France'a

I updated this on the server running tests for erp5-report@



git-svn-id: https://svn.erp5.org/repos/public/erp5/trunk@16463 20353a03-c40f-0410-a6d1-a30d3c3de9de

product/ERP5/tests/testICal.py

@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
   for themselves, so we use GMT time.
   This test assumes the person running the test is in the same time zone as me, which is usually true.
   It will be fixed some day.
+  
+  I have been investigating this a little, DateTime module caches the timezone
+  very early in the initialisation process, so changing os.environ['TZ'] has
+  no effect. For now, the easiest is to set TZ environ variable to something
+  like 'Europe/France'
+
 """
 
 import unittest
@@ -53,7 +59,8 @@ class TestICal(ERP5TypeTestCase):
 
   def getBusinessTemplateList(self):
     """  """
-    return ('erp5_base', 'erp5_trade', 'erp5_project', 'erp5_crm', 'erp5_ical_style')
+    return ('erp5_base', 'erp5_trade', 'erp5_project', 'erp5_crm',
+            'erp5_ical_style')
 
   def afterSetUp(self):
     self.portal = self.getPortal()
@@ -116,7 +123,8 @@ class TestICal(ERP5TypeTestCase):
     feed_dict = self.getICalFeed(module)
     self.assertTrue('BEGIN:VEVENT' in feed_dict.keys())
     self.assertEquals(feed_dict['SUMMARY'], 'Event One')
-    self.assertEquals(feed_dict['DTSTART'], '20070815T083000Z')
+    self.assertEquals( # if this fail for you, try to set $TZ to Europe/Paris
+        feed_dict['DTSTART'], '20070815T083000Z')
     self.assertEquals(feed_dict['DTEND'], '20070815T093000Z')
     self.assertEquals(feed_dict['CREATED'], event.getCreationDate().HTML4().replace('-','').replace(':',''))
     self.assertEquals(feed_dict['UID'], 'uuid%s' % event.getUid())