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

From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: kleink@netbsd.org,
	NetBSD GNATS submissions and followups <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, wolfgang@wsrcc.com
Subject: Re: standards/24898: emacs thinks mktime is broken
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:16:34 -0600

 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:36:51PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
 > [ On Monday, January 31, 2005 at 05:45:16 (+0000), jmc@netbsd.org wrote: ]
 > > Subject: Re: standards/24898
 > >
 > > Synopsis: emacs thinks mktime is broken
 > > 
 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > > State-Changed-By: jmc@netbsd.org
 > > State-Changed-When: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:45:16 +0000
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > > As Klaus points out, this behavior that emacs is checking for is standards
 > > compliant and emacs is simply being more pedantic than the standard requires.
 > 
 > 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...
 
 James