At 00:20 +0200 2000-09-28, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
Garrett Wollman: Many time-zone regions do not have a `capital' of any sort. To give just one example, the time zone `America/Los_Angeles' has three `capitals': Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia. None of these are obvious choices. `America/Chicago' has even more possibilities.
Dunno, the book "The world almanac and book of facts", World Almanac Books, 1998, gives on page 542 a list of US state capitals with Sacramento as the only capital of California, Springfield (not Chicago) as capital of Illinois, etcetera. Good maps will also show the one and only capital of states.
Yes, the only capital of California, but America/Los_Angeles covers (at least the major part of) the states of Oregon and Washington as well (and parts of Canada and Mexico?). America/Chicago I'm pretty sure _excludes_ nearly all of Illinois, including Springfield (if not, then it applies only to most of Illinois). --Alex