# HG changeset patch
# User Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
# Date 1192660044 0
# Node ID e30a5ff2205ad7319992faa4f14a7db6ced20e32
# Parent  2d9343a3760ebbf981d07d2a3ada78e85266de72
display-world-time does not work on Windows.

diff -r 2d9343a3760e -r e30a5ff2205a etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Oct 17 21:10:34 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Oct 17 22:27:24 2007 +0000
@@ -2198,6 +2198,13 @@
 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