From 1457ce0f2f635117a6d4e6a9336e66247f73d7a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:57:13 +0000 Subject: Change note about timezone problems on Windows. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'etc') 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 -- cgit v1.2.1