Mercurial > emacs
changeset 79163:f11ff0408bd8
Change note about timezone problems on Windows.
| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:57:13 +0000 |
| parents | 79c2d19a4384 |
| children | 58e889027356 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Oct 20 17:02:17 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sun Oct 21 00:57:13 2007 +0000 @@ -2199,11 +2199,8 @@ 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. +give incorrect results for many non-US timezones. This is due to a +limitation in Windows handling of daylight savings. Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as