Current versions of the public-domain time zone package do the right thing for October, 1995: Script started on Mon Feb 12 10:53:47 1996 elsie$ ./zdump -v Europe/London | grep 1995 Europe/London Sun Mar 26 00:59:59 1995 GMT = Sun Mar 26 00:59:59 1995 GMT isdst=0 Europe/London Sun Mar 26 01:00:00 1995 GMT = Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 1995 BST isdst=1 Europe/London Sun Oct 22 00:59:59 1995 GMT = Sun Oct 22 01:59:59 1995 BST isdst=1 Europe/London Sun Oct 22 01:00:00 1995 GMT = Sun Oct 22 01:00:00 1995 GMT isdst=0 elsie$ exit script done on Mon Feb 12 10:54:36 1996 Howmsoever...the references to and excerpts from "tztab" files in the articles about HPUX indicate the existence of an alternate and (presumably better) way of handling time zone stuff. If anyone has tztab insights to share with folks on the list, I'd love it. --ado