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authorMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>2007-10-18 21:07:49 +0000
committerMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>2007-10-18 21:07:49 +0000
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Merge from emacs--rel--22
Patches applied: * emacs--rel--22 (patch 125-127) - Update from CVS Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--devo--0--patch-896
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@@ -2200,6 +2200,13 @@ month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
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