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by SkiFire13 287 days ago
> so there is basically a zero percent chance I'll come in in the morning and not be able to run the latest head of develop because someone else's dev machine is slightly different from mine.

It seems you never had to deal with timezone-dependent tests.
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sroerick 287 days ago
What are timezone-dependent tests? Sounds like a bummer
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SkiFire13 287 days ago
I once had to work with a legacy Java codebase and they hardcoded the assumption their software would run in the America/New_York timezone, except some parts of the codebase and tests used the _system_ timezone, so they would fail if run in a machine with a different timezone.
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