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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 7ebf7ae8edd..d098fcc2c11 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2204,6 +2204,13 @@ 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 |