From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:24:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note about format-time-string deficiencies on MS-Windows.
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Added note about format-time-string deficiencies on MS-Windows.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 4fa0a6faa2f..aaa53a6a061 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -391,6 +391,11 @@ Windows programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
 Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
 set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.
 
+The %h format specifier for format-time-string does not work on Windows.
+The %b format specifier does not produce abbreviated 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 `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
 
 This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared