[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v

[Miles Bader]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Miles Bader <miles>     07/10/18 21:07:49

Index: etc/PROBLEMS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v
retrieving revision 1.238
retrieving revision 1.239
diff -u -b -r1.238 -r1.239
--- etc/PROBLEMS        9 Oct 2007 08:52:53 -0000       1.238
+++ etc/PROBLEMS        18 Oct 2007 21:07:48 -0000      1.239
@@ -2200,6 +2200,13 @@
 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