[I'm forwarding this from Mark Brader <msb@vex.net>, who is not on the list; please direct replies accordingly.] Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:20:37 -0400 (EDT) From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC-12 claims, without citing a source, that Baker Island and Howland Island use zone -12 (and the wording suggests that they may be the only places to do so). The tz database says "no information" about their time zone. Any idea where this -12 might have came from? Both sources agree that the islands are uninhabited (although it seems that the US Fish and Wildlife Service makes occasional "visits"), so the question is of little practical importance, but I ask anyway. -- Mark Brader "...there are other means of persuasion msb@vex.net besides killing and threatening to kill." Toronto --Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon