I'd prefer that the "default" "DST" rules be the EU ones, partly because they apply to a considerably larger number of people than the US ones, and partly to show deference to the rest of the world (for a change?). I know they haven't been fixed for nearly as long as - and are perhaps more likely to change in the next few years than - the US ones, but I don't know if these are good enough reasons to reject them as the default. I can't quite discern from the "diff" information provided what's supposed to have happened in Jordan. Is the country now "permanently" (i.e. year-round) on UT+03? What is being proposed for the time-zone "suffix"? Surely not "EEST", meaning, I presume, Eastern European Summer Time? Shouldn't it rather be the same as other countries in the region (if any) that are on UT+03 year round? --Alex At 18:22 -0400 1999-09-20, Olson, Arthur David (NCI) wrote: [all cut: just so it's clear what I'm referring to]