From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:57:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change note about timezone problems on Windows.
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Change note about timezone problems on Windows.
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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