On Nov 3rd 2019, Brazil will skip from 00:00 to 1:00 (http://www.currenttimeonline.com/dst/dst.do?tz=America/Sao_Paulo), DateTime consider it as an invalid date.
It is a problem when we are playing with dates without the time part (always 00:00).
When we instantiate a DateTime (from dt_from_string) we are already handling this issue, and use the floating timezone (since bug 12669).
The problem remains when we generate a DateTime then add or subtract a duration, which will result in an invalid date:
DateTime->new(year => 2019, month => 12, day => 3, time_zone => 'America/Sao_Paulo')->subtract(days => 30);
=> Nov 3rd 2019, kaboom.
We should replace all the problematic occurrences of dt_from_string->subtract (or ->add)
with dt_from_string(undef, undef, 'floating'), to use the floating timezone and avoid the error.
Actually there are not many of them, I have found only 3 that could
produce real problems.
The other occurrences are:
- in tests => Not a big deal (for now)
- called on a datetime, so it will explode if called at midnight
00:00:00 (and nobody should work at that time).
Test plan:
0/ Define the timezone to 'America/Sao_Paulo' (in your koha-conf.xml file), restart_all
1/ Set a patron's expiry date to Dec 3rd 2019, and
NotifyBorrowerDeparture to 30 (default value)
2/ See the checkouts page for this user
=> Without this patch you get "Invalid local time for date in time zone:
America/Sao_Paulo"
=> With this patch apply the page displays correctly
QA will review the 2 other occurrences.
Signed-off-by: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
