bug#29987: closed (Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date')

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Problem when testing 'makeinfo' date output with 'date' Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:52:17 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

When Running the test suite soon after midnight with CET time zone the
"t/txinfo-vtexi4.sh" test fails. 

"LC_ALL=C date" outputs the locale time whereas makeinfo use UTC timezone.

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mthl@localhost:~/src/automake$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
C'est logiciel libre, vous êtes libre de le modifier et de le redistribuer.
Ce logiciel n'est accompagné d'ABSOLUMENT AUCUNE GARANTIE, dans les limites
autorisées par la loi applicable.
Écrit par David MacKenzie.
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config.log
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> i believe this was fixed for automake-1.16.2
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=c64fa5a2bdbff8874e13aa7ad179c45a5aa52f29
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> from NEWS:
>   - The automake test txinfo-vtexi4.sh no longer fails when localtime
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