When you tell ctest to perform a Nightly test (-D Nightly), it is supposed to use the NightlyStartTime parameter in the DartConfiguration.tcl file to normalize the start times, to ensure that all nightly runs get submitted to the dashboard with a consistent time. Specifically, the reported time is supposed to be set to the most recently occurring instance of NightlyStartTime. So, for example, if NightlyStartTime is set to 9pm EST, and a build was started at 1am EST on a Wednesday, the build should be reported to the dashboard with an official start time of 9pm Tuesday. Instead, what is happening is the build timestamp is being set to a value of 23:59 GMT, or 18:59 EST. I've attached a sample output XML file from such a run, with NightlyStartTime set to '21:00:00 EST', but I've tried numerous other values (both different time values and different timezones, including GMT). Regardless of how I configure it, the BuildStamp element always has a time value of 23:59 UTC. This is with cmake-2.4.7-3.fc8
Created attachment 297086 [details] Sample report with incorrect BuildStamp
Please test with 2.4.8 that has just been pushed. If it is still a problem, this really needs to get reported upstream.
Will do - is this update in fedora 8 updates, or should I grab the build from fedora 9 alpha?
F8 updates - just got released today.
Okay, I installed cmake-2.4.8-1.fc8 and tried again. The results were identical. In addition, I was able to get a sample XML results file from another user, using ctest 2.4.8 on FreeBSD, and identical configuration files. On that system, the BuildStamp value was generated correctly.
Created attachment 297138 [details] ctest 2.4.8 on fedora with incorrect buildstamp
Created attachment 297139 [details] ctest 2.4.8 on freebsd with correct buildstamp
I'm afraid I have no experience with ctest -D and Dart. Could you attach a sample DartConfiguration.tcl?
Sure. The simplest way to generate a file is ctest -D NightlyConfigure The output files will be created as Testing/<build stamp>/*.xml
Created attachment 297234 [details] ctest dashboard configuration
According to the cmake folks, the directory this is run in needs to be a CVS/svn checked out directory. Is that the case? Can you attach the output of "ctest -V -D Nightly"?
Created attachment 297951 [details] ctest -V -D Nightly output
Just to clarify, you can see the problem in these lines: Determine Nightly Start Time Specified time: 21:00:00 EST Create new tag: 20080312-2359 - Nightly The nightly start time of 21:00:00 EST matches the config file, but the tag is then generated with a timestamp that doesn't match.
Upstream bug: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6583
cmake-2.4.8-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update cmake'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-5015
That version fixes the problem for me. Thanks!
cmake-2.4.8-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.