Mercurial > emacs
changeset 79130:e30a5ff2205a
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 | 2d9343a3760e |
| children | 2818a9b47852 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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