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Tests with time

I encountered the issue when my tests passed locally, but some of them failed on CI. Initially, I thought it was a problem with incorrect configuration of the running task or pipeline environment. I tried several solutions, but none worked. Surprisingly, it was only after that I decided to check which tests had failed. The issue was clear: it was related to time.
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These tests cover the logic of parsing a string into LocalDateTime.  Parsing involves local time, which requires information about the time zone. I get this information from a static method that returns the time zone of the running environment: TimeZone.currentSystemDefault(). In tests, I use a string with a specific time and assert against a time related to my time zone. As a result, the tests passed on my local machine but failed on the CI machine, which operates in a different time zone. 

The solution was obvious: I need to provide a specific time zone for the tests to make them independent of the environment. To achieve this, I needed to extract the logic of obtaining time zone information as a dependency, allowing it to be configured for tests.

fun Any.parsToLocalDateTime(timeZone: TimeZone = TimeZone.currentSystemDefault()): LocalDateTime? {
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