Hi, The europe file as distributed by Sun Microsystems has, as far as I can tell, a small bug in the Europe/London zone. My diff is included below. At least the Sun seems to need the one hour offset in the RULES part instead of the GMTOFF. I have a small test program that shows the problem; if you are interested let me know. the problem only affects dates in the 1968-1971 period. Cheers, --- Allan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allan Engelhardt Consultant Parallax Solutions Ltd Stonecourt Siskin Drive Coventry CV3 4FJ Tel: [+44] (0)1203 514400 Fax: [+44] (0)1203 514401 E-Mail: Allan.Engelhardt@parallax.co.uk --- [% diff -c europe /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe] --- *** europe Tue Apr 23 16:03:54 1996 --- /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe Sat Jul 16 05:47:47 1994 *************** *** 661,667 **** # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/London -0:00:37 - LMT 1847 Sep 22 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Feb 18 2:00 ! 0:00 1:00 BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00 # Fixed -AE- 0:00 GB-Eire %s Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT --- 661,667 ---- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/London -0:00:37 - LMT 1847 Sep 22 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Feb 18 2:00 ! 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00 0:00 GB-Eire %s Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT