The data for Africa/Abidjan contains this: Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT But zdump gives me this: Africa/Abidjan Mon Jan 1 00:16:07 1912 UTC = Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 1911 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-968 Africa/Abidjan Mon Jan 1 00:16:08 1912 UTC = Mon Jan 1 00:16:08 1912 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Africa/Abidjan Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Africa/Abidjan Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=0 The version of the time zone data installed on my system (GNU/Linux Debian unstable) may not match the version of the files I'm looking at (2003a) but I didn't think that the LMT name was something terribly recent. If look directly at the binary data for this zone on my system, I see that it does indeed contain the string "LMT". Any idea where this is getting munged? I'm trying to generate tests for my code based on the output of zdump, but I'm getting weird failures because of this problem. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/