[BUG] changeset test suite fails unpredictably

[John A Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John A Meinel wrote:
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>>>Unless I missed my guess as to the randomization function, it should be
>>>rather unlikely to overflow a time_t.
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> It does seem rather unlikely, but that's what the failure message seems
> to say.  And it's rather difficult to debug...
>

If you happened to go high or low for more than 40 in a row, then it
would go out of range (for 32bit time_t). So it is possible, but not likely.

Anyway, I'm fine with a more specifically rigorous stepping.

John
=:->

> Aaron
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>>>>   ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t
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