From: Jason Rumney Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:27:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: display-world-time does not work on Windows. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.1.90~576 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f1bc31f0ae1f386f44a1dad2eb5a8b09d37ef12;p=emacs.git display-world-time does not work on Windows. --- 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