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Comment by ajmurmann

4 years ago

A related too for CI: change the system time to be a time zone that is during your work hours in a different day already than UTC. Really helped getting failures earlier than 4pm PST.

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scubbo  4 years ago

Could you consider rephrasing this? It sounds like an interesting observation that I'd love to understand, but I'm genuinely not able to parse it.

My best guess is "change the system time to be a timezone for which, during your work hours, the other-timezone is in a different day than UTC is" - but I'm still not sure what effect that would have on CI failures.

  • ajmurmann  4 years ago

    Maybe an example of the failure this detects helps: when I used to work on Rails apps in the olden days it was easy to call Time.now and get the local time instead of Time.zone.now to get UTC time. This often lead to wrong dates but tests would only fail once it was a new day in UTC land but still the old day in the local time zone. Making the CI machine's system time something Fiji time really helped in getting failures much sooner after changes were pushed.

  • Teknoman117  4 years ago

    I read that as "set your CI to run earlier in your workday so you don't get new error reports at the end of the day." Midnight UTC being 4 pm/16:00 PST.