From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Need help fixing testcases with time-difference Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:04:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <57B56C3D.4050705@crazy-compilers.com> <57B584DA.2040704@crazy-compilers.com> <57B5A68E.6060206@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baMzh-0003AI-5Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:04:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baMzf-0001KC-3O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:04:24 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::231]:35818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1baMze-0001K8-Vg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:04:23 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x231.google.com with SMTP id v123so15021257qkh.2 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:04:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <57B5A68E.6060206@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel >> I've not looked too hard, but that test seems to use the storage to check access >> time on a file, could it be that your FS use the "noatime" option or >> does not produce correctly updated file access timestamps ? > > Good spot! But my filesystems are mounted with "relatime", so this > should not matter. https://blog.confirm.ch/mount-options-atime-vs-relatime/> Yep the relatime bugs should have been ironed out a few years ago. D'oh ! That would have been an easy way out... Are you in a DST-enabled timezone or not ? -- Vincent Legoll