[erlang-questions] Interesting issue...

[Patrik Nyblom]

Hi!

This ought to be fixed already in R15B03, can you please verify that 
it's not present there? I can only reproduce it in R15B01 and prior 
releases.

Cheers,
/Patrik

On 01/15/2013 05:58 PM, Bryan Hughes wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I already submitted this to erlang-bugs@REDACTED, but figured others 
> might be interested.  I found an interesting issue while traveling and 
> working through Thailand.  I have been able to reproduce it on my 
> MacBook Pro using R15B01, built from source.
>
> 1. Set your date to Indochina Time.
> 2. In the shell, try executing: 
> calendar:local_time_to_universal_time_dst({{2012,12,3},{8,48,42}}).
>
> Here is the exception that I am getting.  Note that the date is a 
> validate datetime.
>
> Eshell V5.9.1 (abort with ^G)
> 1> calendar:local_time_to_universal_time_dst({{2012,12,3},{8,48,42}}).
> ** exception error: bad argument
>      in function erlang:localtime_to_universaltime/2
>         called as 
> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2012,12,3},{8,48,42}},true)
>      in call from calendar:local_time_to_universal_time_dst/1 
> (calendar.erl, line 282)
>
> When I set my date back to Pacific time, it works without any problem 
> -- you can switch it back and forth while in the shell and either get 
> the exception, or the correct output.
>
> I was able to isolate it to function the bif.c function, unfortunately 
> my environment is not really set up to debug the erlang runtime.
>
>     BIF_RETTYPE localtime_to_universaltime_2(BIF_ALIST_2);
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
> -- 
>
> Bryan Hughes
> CTO and Founder / *Go Factory*
> http://www.go-factory.net
>
>
>
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