bug#31644: tests/ls/abmon-align does not work today (May 29th)

[Kamil Dudka]

On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 7:16:43 PM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 29/05/18 09:16, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > Re-posting with a fresh subject.  debbugs.gnu.org rejected my original
> > post
> > because the original bug has been closed and has received no comments for
> > more than 28 days:
> > 
> > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30814
> > 
> > On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:40:31 PM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> Given the increase in supported size should only impact relatively few
> >> languages it probably makes sense to increase to 12. The attached does
> >> that
> >> and also augments the test to find ambiguous cases.
> > 
> > The ls/abmon-align test does not work today (May 29th) because of the
> > added
> > 
> > check.  The problem is that:
> >     touch '-d+N month' for N={01..12}
> > 
> > ... in general does not create 12 files with timestamps in different
> > months.
> > 
> > If you run it today (May 29th), touch '-d+09 month' results in March 1st
> > while touch '-d+10 month' results in March 29th.  Consequently, both
> > 09.ts and 10.ts have the same month (March) to begin with and the check
> > for duplicates has to
> > fail:
> That was a latent issue with the original test, which I've
> now pushed a fix for at:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8eb21c

This works for me.  Thanks!

Kamil

> I've a local prototype to address the more general gotcha here
> wrt relative date adjustments, which I hope to push soon.
> 
> thanks!
> Pádraig