[Bug 18991] Sims 3 crash loading a Town

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18991

--- Comment #59 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-08-17 01:39:50 ---
This is a bug in Mono, and they have removed all asserts due to reports from
Windows users.

Here is the bug description:

In mono-2.4.2.3/mono/metadata/icall.c,
ves_icall_System_CurrentSystemTimeZone_GetTimeZoneData() they call
GetTimeZoneInformation(), and convert_to_absolute_date() assumes that
the returned DST/STD time is always in the day-of-week format (wYear == 0).
But that's not always the case. MSDN: "If the wYear member is not zero,
the transition date is absolute; it will only occur one time. Otherwise,
it is a relative date that occurs yearly."

In the mono-2.4.2.3 sources all asserts after convert_to_absolute_date()
failuers are commented out.

The Mono bug has been fixed by the following commit:

2007-12-29  Miguel de Icaza

* icall.c
    (ves_icall_System_CurrentSystemTimeZone_GetTimeZoneData): Turn the
    assert into a negative result, the managed code already coped with
    that.

Some folks on Windows reported this error.