If your timezone is UTC-something, 3 unit test might fail:

• Fn_SEARCH::verify_date_param_ForkingSearch
• Fn_SEARCH::verify_date_param_PurePerlSearch
• Fn_SEARCH::verify_date_param_BruteForceQuery

This is due to the fact that it tries to create some very old topic by settings its date to 123 (epoch time), and then asking for all topics from the year 1970.

Problem is that the code which translates the "year 1970" into an interval search is timezone dependent, hence the 1st of January 1970 varies from -86400 to +86400 depending on your timezone.

Ugly fix: Set the date of the very old topic to something above 86400, so we're sure it will be found.

Maybe we should fix Foswiki::Time::parseInterval to use some CPAN module which might be more clever?

-- OlivierRaginel - 21 Feb 2011

See Item9196 for the task Query search for date= fails in some timezones.

-- GeorgeClark - 21 Feb 2011