The following reply was made to PR standards/24898; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@planix.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	NetBSD GNATS submissions and followups <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: standards/24898: emacs thinks mktime is broken
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:21:27 -0500 (EST)

 [ On Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 23:18:01 (+0000), James Chacon wrote: ]
 > Subject: Re: standards/24898: emacs thinks mktime is broken
 >
 >  > But NetBSD's mktime() _is_ broken for certain requests, and emacs isn't
 >  > just being pedantic -- it relies on the "fixed" behaviour and may fail
 >  > if the system mktime() exhibits the bug it test for.
 >  
 >  Actually it's not. It's (as Klaus pointed out) completely standards compliant
 >  as it exists today. That's what this PR was filed against/about. If you
 >  have a problem with the standards, go tilt at that windmill over there...
 
 As I said NetBSD's mktime() _IS_ BROKEN.
 
 It matters not what the standards say since this bug causes real
 failures in real applications (or it would if they didn't look out for
 themseleves and avoid buggy implementations :-).
 
 Indeed I also said this is _not_ a standards problem w.r.t. NetBSD -- it
 should be reclassified as a lib bug.
 
 The standards should be clarified too (they're not really broken, just
 too lax w.r.t. this bug), but I'm actually not so worried about that.
 
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