] If we are ever to have a referenceable "database" on date/timezones as ] Marcus Kuhn is thinking and I see David Keegel also sees as a long term ] objective, we should take this matter a bit more seriously, i.e. the ] IT-enabled and IT-interface API versus the multiple human interface ] equivalents which it may have. How did I get involved in this discussion?? ] The 3-digit time zones are stable they change only when there is a change ] in jurisdiction (.e.g. the break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, ] Ethiopia, etc.) That doesn't sound very stable to me. Jurisdictions change all the time. Having read your message(s), I don't see any good reasons for changing from a City based naming scheme to a numeric code based scheme. This is *not* an invitation for you to present more arguments, I think we have all heard enough about this now to make up our own minds. __________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <djk@cyber.com.au> URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management