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display-world-time does not work on Windows.
author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:27:24 +0000 |
parents | e032ea593ebb |
children | f11ff0408bd8 d35fe28557ac |
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2196 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated | 2196 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated |
2197 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions | 2197 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions |
2198 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system | 2198 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system |
2199 library function. | 2199 library function. |
2200 | 2200 |
2201 The functions set-time-zone-rule, and display-time-world (which uses it) | |
2202 do not work on Windows. Fixing this is difficult, since Windows uses | |
2203 localtime for the system clock, and any attempt to change the timezone | |
2204 would have to be accompanied by a clock change for the results to remain | |
2205 consistent. The way in which these functions are used is not intended to | |
2206 cause such system-wide disruption. | |
2207 | |
2201 Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a | 2208 Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a |
2202 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as | 2209 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as |
2203 well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies | 2210 well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies |
2204 on `file-attributes'. | 2211 on `file-attributes'. |
2205 | 2212 |