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    util: fix virTimeLocalOffsetFromUTC DST processing · 26d43113
    Laine Stump 提交于
    The original version of virTimeLocalOffsetFromUTC() would fail for
    certain times of the day if daylight savings time was active. This
    could most easily be seen by uncommenting the TEST_LOCALOFFSET() cases
    that include a DST setting.
    
    After a lot of experimenting, I found that the way to solve it in
    almost all test cases is to set tm_isdst = -1 in the struct tm prior
    to calling mktime(). Once this is done, the correct offset is returned
    for all test cases at all times except the two hours just after
    00:00:00 Jan 1 UTC - during that time, any timezone that is *behind*
    UTC, and that is supposed to always be in DST will not have DST
    accounted for in its offset.
    
    I believe that the code of virTimeLocalOffsetFromUTC() actually is
    correct for all cases, but the problem still encountered is due to our
    inability to come up with a TZ string that properly forces DST to
    *always* be active. Since a modfication of the (currently fixed)
    expected result data to account for this would necessarily use the
    same functions that we're trying to test, I've instead just made the
    test program conditionally bypass the problematic cases if the current
    date is either December 31 or January 1. This way we get maximum
    testing during 363 days of the year, but don't get false failures on
    Dec 31 and Jan 1.
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