Merge pull request #236 from daira/2725.timezone-test.0

[tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git] / src / allmydata / test / test_util.py

diff --git a/src/allmydata/test/test_util.py b/src/allmydata/test/test_util.py
index 69d3c747dae7842fea8d59dd0f87b7a65e702ce8..e59e14aba6e92c4625896e24c6a20f015d38932e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/allmydata/test/test_util.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/test/test_util.py
@@ -932,6 +932,10 @@ class TimeFormat(unittest.TestCase, TimezoneMixin):
         # time_format.iso_utc_time_to_localseconds() breaks if the timezone is
         # Europe/London.  (As soon as this unit test is done then I'll change
         # that implementation to something that works even in this case...)
+
+        if not self.have_working_tzset():
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("This test can't be run on a platform without time.tzset().")
+
         self.setTimezone("Europe/London")
         return self._help_test_epoch()