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| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> | 2007-10-21 00:57:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> | 2007-10-21 00:57:13 +0000 |
| commit | 1457ce0f2f635117a6d4e6a9336e66247f73d7a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a0fdefc3bb2c50ff8541825c56983a4061ec1ed /etc | |
| parent | 120d7f1b3918982c4623f7356bf6311c9f80c1d5 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-1457ce0f2f635117a6d4e6a9336e66247f73d7a1.tar.gz | |
Change note about timezone problems on Windows.
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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 76753c38066..97b3d392c35 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2199,11 +2199,8 @@ 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. +give incorrect results for many non-US timezones. This is due to a +limitation in Windows handling of daylight savings. Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as |