Details
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Task
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P3: Somewhat important
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5.12
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macOS, particularly 10.13, but older (supported) versions are interesting, too.
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macOS
Description
When erikv first tested macOS 10.13, he found it got CET as the abbreviation for Europe/Berlin, at odds with various tests which expect macOS to use GMT+offset for it. However, when we came to launch macOS 10.13 on Coin (for 5.12 and later), it got GMT+offset the same as all our older version of macOS. So clearly there's something we could do on the Coin VMs to get the same set-up Erik had when he first tried; but we don't know what it is. That might even work in older versions, saving us the need for the hacks to expect GMT+offset. So we need someone proficient in macOS admining to investigate.
tosaraja has set up debug VMs (with the usual macOS credentials) for investigation.
- macOS 10.12: 10.215.210.83
- macOS 10.13: 10.215.172.132
The tests that implicate this are the ones this review would un-blacklist (once we know how to change the #if-ery in them to suit the revised VM config): tst_QDateTime::timeZoneAbbreviation() and tst_QLocale::formatTimeZone().