dojox.date.timezone tests failing

[bill]

Tested on FF3.6 mac and FF4.0 win on my machine (which is in Japan). The failure list is too long to paste into a ticket but some are:

    _AssertFailure: http://localhost/clean/dojo/dojo.js:280 doh._AssertFailure: assertEqual() failed:
  expected [object Object] but got [object Object]
 FAILED test: date.timezone.America-Iqaluit 17 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Jamaica 3 ms
     _AssertFailure: http://localhost/clean/dojo/dojo.js:280 doh._AssertFailure: assertEqual() failed:
  expected [object Object] but got [object Object]
 doh._AssertFailure
  FAILED test: date.timezone.America-Juneau 16 ms
   FAILED test: date.timezone.America-Kentucky-Louisville 17 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Kentucky-Monticello 19 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-La_Paz 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Lima 4 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Los_Angeles 15 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Maceio 12 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Managua 3 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Manaus 10 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Martinique 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Mazatlan 13 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Menominee 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Merida 12 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Mexico_City 14 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Miquelon 14 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Moncton 24 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Monterrey 12 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Montevideo 24 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Montreal 31 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Montserrat 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Nassau 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-New_York 24 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Nipigon 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Nome 24 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Noronha 11 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-North_Dakota-Center 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-North_Dakota-New_Salem 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Panama 1 ms
 FAILED test: date.timezone.America-Pangnirtung 17 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Paramaribo 1 ms
     _AssertFailure: http://localhost/clean/dojo/dojo.js:280 doh._AssertFailure: assertEqual() failed:
  expected [object Object] but got [object Object]
 FAILED test: date.timezone.America-Phoenix 6 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Port-au-Prince 6 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Port_of_Spain 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Porto_Velho 9 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Puerto_Rico 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Rainy_River 22 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Rankin_Inlet 15 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Recife 11 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Regina 8 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Resolute 15 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Rio_Branco 9 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Santarem 10 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Santiago 25 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Santo_Domingo 4 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Sao_Paulo 25 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Scoresbysund 16 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-St_Johns 37 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-St_Kitts 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-St_Lucia 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-St_Thomas 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-St_Vincent 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Swift_Current 4 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Tegucigalpa 3 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Thule 14 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Thunder_Bay 21 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Tijuana 19 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Toronto 31 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Tortola 2 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Vancouver 26 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Whitehorse 18 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Winnipeg 27 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Yakutat 19 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.America-Yellowknife 18 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.Antarctica-Casey 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.Antarctica-Davis 2 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.Antarctica-DumontDUrville 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.Antarctica-Mawson 1 ms
 PASSED test: date.timezone.Antarctica-McMurdo 20 ms
 ...
 FAILED test: date.timezone.Pacific-Honolulu 9 ms

[cjolif]

Note that I also have timezoneFormatting & hebrewDate/parse_and_format failing on the same module.

[bill]

#15422 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[bill]

Also, I filed #15424 about the timezoneFormatting failure.

[dylan]

Given that no one has shown interest in creating a patch in the past 4+ years, I'm closing this as patchwelcome.