Date: Wed, 09 Jun 93 10:49:28 +0300 From: Amos Shapir <amos@CS.HUJI.AC.IL> In the Rand-McNally atlas there are a few other Pacific islands with 40 mins offsets, all of which appear as full or half-hour zones in the file; it also lists Nepal at GMT+5:40 and Liberia as -0:44 (yes, forty four) -- makes sense since Monrovia is at exactly 11 degrees west, but probably outdated too. Liberia switched from that oddball timezone in the mid-1970s, on its fearless octogenarian leader's birthday, if I recall correctly. I believe Rand-McNally typically gets its data from the US Naval Observatory: Goode's, their school atlas, even credits the USNO in small print just below its time zone map. But they aren't always that good about keeping up-to-date, or even telling you when the time zone data was prepared. So it's probably better to ignore Rand-McNally and use the USNO list directly.