From: "Law, Gwil Jr. " <Gwil_Law@Bridge-Point.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:48:53 -0500 Following the published criteria, Dund-Us is the top choice, with Ulaangom a close second. Dund-Us is more centrally located in the zone, which might give it more of an edge. Thanks very much for your analysis. Dund-Us's multiple names troubles me. (I have a sneaking suspicion that some of them are just nicknames like ``The Big Apple''.:-) However, as you say, Dund-Us is more centrally located, and it is easier to spell, so perhaps we should go with Dund-Us. I'm still planning to comment out Shanks's claim that there was a third time zone in the east, but in the comment I'll change its canonical representative from Baruun-Urt to Choibalsan, as the latter seems by far the largest town in the purported zone. Unfortunately its spelling is also problematic: Choybalsan? Qoibalsan? Something with umlauts over it? Graham Taylor explains that the naming problem has arisen from the confusing system of giving the soum township a different name to the soum area.... It was once said that the hardest things to find in Mongolia were accurate information and coconut milk.... [There are] often multiple levels of conflicting information from the same official source. -- <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/upgrades/up-mon.htm> I'm used to this problem with time zone information, but it is amusing to see it with regard to place names.