From: Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr[SMTP:Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 11:00 AM my zdump seems to be broken (mentions 1970 too often). Ever heard about this ? (solaris2.5, sparc20) Solaris 2.5 zic and zdump don't allow times before 1970. This bug is fixed in Solaris 2.6. In the meantime, you can use the elsie tz and zdump instead; they're compatible with Solaris 2.5. Paris Mean Time ... should be 0:09:21 Yes, you're correct. That bug is corrected in the current version; the correction affected the tables for Algiers, Monaco, Paris, and Tunis. (Shanks claims Tunis switched from PMT to GMT+0100 two days early in March 1911, but for now we're assuming this is a typo.) The current version also notes that France's time was officially an integral number of hours away from (Paris Mean Time minus 0:09:21) from 1911 through 1978, when the official time base finally switched to UTC. By the way, is there somewhere a lastest version of those files ? ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/