Fix bug with parsing time formats during DST periods.

wxDateTime::ParseFormat() used todays date as fall back when parsing all
formats, including those involving times, which meant that its results
depended on whether DST was active at the time of the parsing which was
clearly wrong.

Fix this by using a fixed date on which DST is known not to be active as fall
back date.

This fixes unit test failures in DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeFormat() when it
was ran on a DST transition date.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@70993 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/src/common/datetimefmt.cpp b/src/common/datetimefmt.cpp
index ac7540dc881685190b9761357e833c46441da0fa..cfce31f86a4384ee058513055c6c164734e5e105 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/datetimefmt.cpp
+++ b/src/common/datetimefmt.cpp
@@ -291,8 +291,14 @@ ParseFormatAt(wxString::const_iterator& p,
     const wxString str(p, end);
     wxString::const_iterator endParse;
     wxDateTime dt;
-    if ( dt.ParseFormat(str, fmt, &endParse) ||
-            (!fmtAlt.empty() && dt.ParseFormat(str, fmtAlt, &endParse)) )
+
+    // Use a default date outside of the DST period to avoid problems with
+    // parsing the time differently depending on the todays date (which is used
+    // as the fall back date if none is explicitly specified).
+    static const wxDateTime dtDef(1, wxDateTime::Jan, 2012);
+
+    if ( dt.ParseFormat(str, fmt, dtDef, &endParse) ||
+            (!fmtAlt.empty() && dt.ParseFormat(str, fmtAlt, dtDef, &endParse)) )
     {
         p += endParse - str.begin();
     }