Here's a snippet of "zdump -v Africa/Cairo" with the latest changes: Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 21:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Apr 29 23:59:59 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 22:00:00 2038 UT = Fri Apr 30 01:00:00 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 20:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:59:59 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 21:00:00 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:00:00 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Apr 28 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Apr 29 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 20 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Oct 21 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Apr 26 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Apr 27 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 11 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Oct 12 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Note that things seem to be fine up to 2038, but then after that it reports 6+ transitions a year for the region. This looks like a bug to me, and my Perl tools that parse the files still come up with just 2 transitions per year. Cheers, -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/