Comment by Bratmon
13 hours ago
Doesn't that just turn bugs in test in n years into bugs in prod in n years?
That seems like a downgrade to me!
13 hours ago
Doesn't that just turn bugs in test in n years into bugs in prod in n years?
That seems like a downgrade to me!
No, because prod doesn't have hardcoded cookies baked into it?
If you always test with a date of 1/1/2000 then you don't know that your choice fails in 2039.
These fake-time environments let you set the time, so you can test how the code will behave in 2039 without waiting for 13 years. For Go's synctest, 1-1-2000 is just the default initial value for now().