Format UTC offsets with the invariant culture - #1854
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GetDateOffset built the offset with plain interpolation, so the numbers went through CurrentCulture while every other part of the rendered date passed Culture.InvariantCulture explicitly. NumberFormatInfo.NegativeSign is not "-" everywhere. sv-SE renders U+2212 MINUS SIGN, ar-SA prefixes U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK, and fa-IR uses U+200E + U+2212. Only negative offsets are affected, since the positive and zero branches write a literal "+". The string reaches two places. As snapshot content, via Convert, a DateTimeOffset serialized on a Swedish machine differs from the one committed from an en-US machine even though the values are equal. As a parameter file name, via ToParameterString, the verified file for offset -05:00 is looked up under a name that machine can never produce a match for.
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Updated [Verify.XunitV3](https://github.com/VerifyTests/Verify) from 31.28.0 to 32.0.0. <details> <summary>Release notes</summary> _Sourced from [Verify.XunitV3's releases](https://github.com/VerifyTests/Verify/releases)._ ## 32.0.0 - [x] [#1832](VerifyTests/Verify#1832) Add Inline snpashot support - [x] [#1835](VerifyTests/Verify#1835) Add SettingsTask.AddContext - [x] [#1847](VerifyTests/Verify#1847) Honor explicit DefaultValueHandling for bools - [x] [#1850](VerifyTests/Verify#1850) Stray extension-less snapshot file crashes every run of its test - [x] [#1851](VerifyTests/Verify#1851) Static UniqueForTargetFramework(Assembly) overloads ignore the assembly passed to them - [x] [#1852](VerifyTests/Verify#1852) Appended files skip scrubbing and newline normalization when a stream converter is registered - [x] [#1853](VerifyTests/Verify#1853) IgnoreParameters() ignore-all sentinel is lost when combined with another ignore source - [x] [#1854](VerifyTests/Verify#1854) Format UTC offsets with the invariant culture - [x] [#1855](VerifyTests/Verify#1855) Format UTC offsets with invariant culture - [x] [#1856](VerifyTests/Verify#1856) Use ticks to decide date precision - [x] [#1857](VerifyTests/Verify#1857) Clean # out of file name parameters - [x] [#1858](VerifyTests/Verify#1858) Escape one character trimmed date formats - [x] [#1859](VerifyTests/Verify#1859) Prefer the exact type when resolving a member converter - [x] [#1860](VerifyTests/Verify#1860) Keep empty collections ignored alongside instance predicates - [x] [#1861](VerifyTests/Verify#1861) Key the combinations name cache by reference - [x] [#1862](VerifyTests/Verify#1862) Match MSTest overloads against the test data - [x] [#1863](VerifyTests/Verify#1863) Report deletes as directory relative paths - [x] [#1864](VerifyTests/Verify#1864) Name the guarded API in ThrowIfVerifyHasBeenRun - [x] [#1865](VerifyTests/Verify#1865) Keep stack frames that have no parameter list - [x] [#1866](VerifyTests/Verify#1866) Generate the TestContext property for record test classes - [x] [#1867](VerifyTests/Verify#1867) Fix two CombinationResultsConverter edge cases - [x] [#1868](VerifyTests/Verify#1868) Sign sub-hour UTC offsets - [x] [#1869](VerifyTests/Verify#1869) Write the received file from the stream for handle based FileStreams - [x] [#1870](VerifyTests/Verify#1870) Compare prefixes ignoring case - [x] [#1871](VerifyTests/Verify#1871) Guard the counter value caches with a lock - [x] [#1872](VerifyTests/Verify#1872) Sign sub-hour UTC offsets ## 32.0.0-beta.16 ## 32.0.0-beta.15 ## 32.0.0-beta.14 ## 32.0.0-beta.13 ## 32.0.0-beta.12 ## 32.0.0-beta.10 ## 32.0.0-beta.8 ## 32.0.0-beta.7 ## 32.0.0-beta.6 ## 32.0.0-beta.5 ## 32.0.0-beta.4 ## 32.0.0-beta.3 ## 32.0.0-beta.2 ## 32.0.0-beta.1 Commits viewable in [compare view](VerifyTests/Verify@31.28.0...32.0.0). </details> [](https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-security-vulnerabilities/about-dependabot-security-updates#about-compatibility-scores) Dependabot will resolve any conflicts with this PR as long as you don't alter it yourself. You can also trigger a rebase manually by commenting `@dependabot rebase`. [//]: # (dependabot-automerge-start) [//]: # (dependabot-automerge-end) --- <details> <summary>Dependabot commands and options</summary> <br /> You can trigger Dependabot actions by commenting on this PR: - `@dependabot rebase` will rebase this PR - `@dependabot recreate` will recreate this PR, overwriting any edits that have been made to it - `@dependabot show <dependency name> ignore conditions` will show all of the ignore conditions of the specified dependency - `@dependabot ignore <dependency name> major version` will close this group update PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for the specific dependency's major version (unless you unignore this specific dependency's major version or upgrade to it yourself) - `@dependabot ignore <dependency name> minor version` will close this group update PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for the specific dependency's minor version (unless you unignore this specific dependency's minor version or upgrade to it yourself) - `@dependabot ignore <dependency name>` will close this group update PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for the specific dependency (unless you unignore this specific dependency or upgrade to it yourself) - `@dependabot unignore <dependency name>` will remove all of the ignore conditions of the specified dependency - `@dependabot unignore <dependency name> <ignore condition>` will remove the ignore condition of the specified dependency and ignore conditions </details> Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com> Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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GetDateOffsetinsrc/Verify/Serialization/DateFormatter_DateTimeOffset.csbuilt the offset with plain interpolation, so the numbers went throughCurrentCulture, while every other part of the rendered date in that file passesCulture.InvariantCultureexplicitly.NumberFormatInfo.NegativeSignis not-everywhere:-01:30renders asU+002D-1-30U+2212−1−30U+061C U+002D-1-30U+200E U+2212−1−30Only negative offsets are affected; the positive and zero branches write a literal
+.Impact
The string reaches two places.
DateFormatter.Convert. ADateTimeOffsetserialized on a Swedish machine differs from the one committed from an en-US machine even though the values are equal.DateFormatter.ToParameterString. The verified file for a parameter with offset-05:00is looked up under a name that machine can never produce a match for, so the test reports the snapshot as new on every run.Change
The four interpolations now go through
FormattableString.Invariant, which keeps the format strings in place and is available on every target framework down to net462. Output under the invariant culture is byte identical, so no existing snapshot moves.Test
DateFormatterTests.OffsetDoesNotTakeTheCurrentCultureNegativeSignpins all five branches (-1.5,-5,+1.5,+5,0) against expected literals whileCurrentCulturecarriesU+2212as its negative sign. The sign is assigned onto a clone of the invariant culture rather than picking a real culture, so the assertion does not move with the ICU data the test runs against.Confirmed the test fails on unpatched source (both negative cases, positives unaffected) and passes after. Full
Verify.Testssuite green: 1304 passed, 0 failed.Verify.csprojbuilds clean across all nine target frameworks.