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| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> | 2007-10-17 22:27:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> | 2007-10-17 22:27:24 +0000 |
| commit | 9f1bc31f0ae1f386f44a1dad2eb5a8b09d37ef12 (patch) | |
| tree | 6325422170a244e8d4ae0649b792861ce9c02d1c /etc/PROBLEMS | |
| parent | 63b9e28d052daf33d872a4df06b1fa880c7a3549 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-9f1bc31f0ae1f386f44a1dad2eb5a8b09d37ef12.tar.gz | |
display-world-time does not work on Windows.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 72e5a7afa76..76753c38066 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@ month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system library function. +The functions set-time-zone-rule, and display-time-world (which uses it) +do not work on Windows. Fixing this is difficult, since Windows uses +localtime for the system clock, and any attempt to change the timezone +would have to be accompanied by a clock change for the results to remain +consistent. The way in which these functions are used is not intended to +cause such system-wide disruption. + Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies |