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In article <4567mh$3fb@info1.sdrc.com>,
Larry Jones <scjones@thor.sdrc.com> wrote:
>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? 

I would think that it is impossible to satisfy a presumption for
1996-04-07 02:30:00 E?T
where "?" is "D" or "S", for example.  That time does not exist
in the U.S. (except in areas that are on year-round EST).
[Or is it 01:30?  Now I've forgotten the exact rule  :-(  ]

So what is mktime to do with this?  Is it specified?  Does it matter?

(Another reason I'm glad I use GMT internally for everything.)

Cheers,
Stan.
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