Some time ago I investigated what might be the capital of Montserrat when the former capital Plymouth was abandoned because of heavy volcanic activity in 1995 and onwards (now it is a bit more quiet). I came to the conclusion that it was probably Brades, from having several addresses of government there. Recently I checked wikipedia and the CIA factbook and it confirms it was changed from Plymouth to Brades. In the tz database we don't have a big problem from the fortunate timezone naming America/Montserrat instead of America/Olveston. However, there are two comments that state it is Olveston in the tz entry (see below). In the web I could only find an old reference from 1996 talking about a government office in Olveston, other references say Brades or Brades Estate. # Montserrat # From Paul Eggert (1997-08-31): # Recent volcanic eruptions have forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital. # Luckily, Olveston, the current de facto capital, has the same longitude. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston -4:00 - AST http://www.gis.gov.ms/ http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mh.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brades%2C_Montserrat Unfortunately that will mean we have to recalculate LMT since it is (as would be expected) not very close to the turmoil of Plymouth. The last page has a nice little map to show where Brades is located in the north of Montserrat. As usual tz database prefers largest city, but I don't know if that differs from Brades. - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the free program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/index.htm