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In article <452i5b$8s4@light.twinsun.com>, eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
> All the standard says (in
> a footnote) is that mktime must ``presume initially that Daylight
> Savings Time ... is ... in effect for the specified time''.  The
> standard does not say what mktime does if this presumption is
> impossible to satisfy.

What does it mean to say that a presumption is impossible to satisfy? 
It seems to me that the intent of the Standard is completely clear.
mktime is to presume that DST is in effect for the specified time.  If,
after normalizing the values, it discovers that DST is not in effect at
that time (i.e., the presumption was false), then it must further
adjust the time by the appropriate DST offset and clear the flag.
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