>Number:         25859
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       localtime anual page could be considered offensive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 07 14:52:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jim Spath
>Release:        1.6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD drillbit 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr  8 12:05:52 UTC 2003 autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/i386/OBJ/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
The manual page for localtime has said this as far back as I can recall (and I started with 386bsd 0.1):

==
Avoid using out-of-range values with mktime() when setting up lunch with
promptness sticklers in Riyadh.
==

There is an underlying racist thought here which should be left out.
>How-To-Repeat:
man localtime

(
also see:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?localtime++NetBSD-current
)
>Fix:
The line could simply read:

Avoid using out-of-range values with mktime().
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: