test_formatdate(): A test that has a mild hope of working on Mac,
which has a different epoch than *nix. Jack may need to twiddle the
details.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email.py
index 37ddc30..4de0514 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email.py
@@ -921,9 +921,19 @@
def test_formatdate(self):
now = 1005327232.109884
+ time0 = time.ctime(0)
+ # When does the epoch start?
+ if time0 == 'Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969':
+ # traditional Unix epoch
+ matchdate = 'Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:33:52 -0000'
+ elif time0 == 'Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 1904':
+ # Mac epoch
+ matchdate = 'Sat, 09 Nov 1935 16:33:52 -0000'
+ else:
+ matchdate = "I don't understand your epoch"
gdate = Utils.formatdate(now)
ldate = Utils.formatdate(now, localtime=1)
- self.assertEqual(gdate, 'Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:33:52 -0000')
+ self.assertEqual(gdate, matchdate)
# It's a little tougher to test for localtime, but we'll try. Skip if
# we don't have strptime().
if hasattr(time, 'strptime'):