The function under test by the StrftimeLocalizedHtmlTest checks the timezone in the user preferences of the user making the request. If we don't explicitly set a request here, it will simply use the last Request that `crum` cached in the thread local cache. This broke now that we sometimes set the crum request.user to an invalid user in other tests. This change ensures that we have a valid request for these tests as a part of the setup of this test class.
common ------ This directory contains common code shared between LMS and CMS, such as Mako templates, CSS, and Coffescript.