If anyone wants to take on being a distributor for a Windows port (or for different variants of Linux, for that matter), I do have a patch for date here: http://catdancer.github.com/date.html
Another option is the Anarki stable branch (http://github.com/nex3/arc/commits/stable/), which has most of fixes necessary to make most of Arc work portably on Windows and other OSes. (And, being a bug-fix branch, the amount of other random material is limited.)
I agree with the option, but I also think these posts will fall off the deep end in about 2 months. By then new members may only discover the option after they've discovered the problem. So we're not really saving new members wasted efforts unless the install page guides people.
pg: Even if you'd rather not think about supporting Windows portability yourself, providing a link to the Anarki stable branch would help new Windows users. Finding this stuff on the forum after it's fallen off the top couple of pages is not very easy.
