[Mono-list] Remaining bugs in System.Convert

Duncan Mak duncan@ximian.com
10 Jun 2002 15:45:32 -0400


On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 04:34, Lawrence Pit wrote:
> > 3) TestToDateTime(MonoTests.System.ConvertTest)
> >
> > This is some System.Globalization, CultureInfo, DateTimeStyles related
> > bug. Punting it for now.
> 
> Most bugs are related to the implementation of TimeZone. TimeZone doesn't
> calculate the correct UtcOffset making almost all DateTime instances contain
> an incorrect number of ticks (this is in cygwin). Also, all the unit tests
> assume the tests are run in CET, so if you're not in timezone CET you'll see
> quite some errors that aren't.
> 

Okay, great. I saw some of your patches to TimeZone earlier, so
hopefully this will be fixed soon. Thanks for looking into this.

I fixed a few more bugs and we're down to 2 bugs in System.Convert. We
have bug 25692, the ToInt64 bug, and also this one.

I think we're in pretty good shape now. ;-)

-- 
Duncan Mak <duncan@ximian.com>