A favourite trick questions on Canadian high school geography exams is "St. John'sis the capital of what province?" Answer = Newfoundland, "Saint John is an important city in what province?" Answer is New Brunswick. Please note that the correct spelling of the capital of Newfoundland is "St. John's" and not "St.Johns". I do not know if this info is of any use to the problem at hand (apart as a Trivia question) Regards - Jake Knoppers
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: September 23, 1999 11:41 AM To: olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: St. Johns
From: "Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:01:13 -0400
A correspondent was surprised by the "America/St_Johns" time zone which was taken to provide information for the city in the United States Virgin Islands rather than for Newfoundland.
They were confused about more things than one. St Johns is in Antigua & Barbuda, not in the US Virgin Islands.
Should the name of the zone be changed? Alternately, should an "America/St_Johns_USVI" be provided?
St_Johns is indeed a troublesome name, but I'd wait for signs of confusion from others before doing anything about it. If we do need to disambiguate, I'd suggest renaming the Newfoundland entry instead.