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Subject: Re: Inconsistancy between mktime and system time accross leapsecond
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In message: <17141.2993.393364.510305@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
            Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> writes:
: The Standard may be wrong, but the committee has been unable to make
: progress on this issue in more than a decade of sometimes-contentious
: debate, so the existing language stands.

So are we therefore precluded from fixing this obvious bug?  This is
stupid and wrong.

Warner