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

[Miles Bader]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Miles Bader <miles>     07/10/27 09:07:17

Index: etc/PROBLEMS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v
retrieving revision 1.239
retrieving revision 1.240
diff -u -b -r1.239 -r1.240
--- etc/PROBLEMS        18 Oct 2007 21:07:48 -0000      1.239
+++ etc/PROBLEMS        27 Oct 2007 09:07:10 -0000      1.240
@@ -2200,12 +2200,9 @@
 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.
+The function set-time-zone-rule gives incorrect results for many
+non-US timezones.  This is due to over-simplistic handling of
+daylight savings switchovers by the Windows libraries.
 
 Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a
 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'.  This affects Dired as