Reasonably reliable information about the administrative regions in Mongolia can be found on the web site of the National Statistical Office of Mongolia: http://statis.pmis.gov.mn/english/territory_fe.htm and http://statis.pmis.gov.mn/yearbook99/Territor/1_1.HTM The spelling of the places on the Mongolian web site is not extremely consistent (e.g. Zavkhan and Zavhan). The Times atlas uses a spelling which is more consistent with the Mongolian-Cyrillic names (Dzavhan). Of course, names with ö and ü have to be Posixified, for instance by dropping the diacritics. At the moment, still no better time zone information can be found on-line than on the web page: http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/factpack.htm as referred to by Jesper Nørgard and saying: "Most of Mongolia is 8 hours ahead of GMT. However, the three western aimags of Khovd, Uvs and Bayan Ulgii are GMT+7. Mongolia no longer puts forward its clocks by 1 hour in the summer months." Khovd is spelled by the Times atlas as Hovd and Bayan Ulgii as Bayan-Ölgiy. Uvs is 'correct'. Regards, Oscar van Vlijmen 2001-05-16