After reading all the postings on this and trying to recall how time zones worked on windows it might be best just to return the standard offset and deal with the text representation in a class. That should make it easy to modify. I'm not offended by -5 nor by EST. However, the issue of city names is more personal for many. One of the time zone programs goes by country puts my time zone city as Montreal (rather than Toronto where I live). This doesn't particularly bother me but I'm sure this sort of thing bothers others especially where there are historical rivalries between cities. Of course the other fun bit is the observation of daylight savings time (or not), double daylight savings time (if it's still observed anywhere) and when these begin and end. I've never tried a full survey but handling it in a class makes much more sense.
BTW. At first I couldn't recall there even being time zones in windows. I then realized that it was just that I given up trying to figure out how to get windows to run on a box with the hardware clock set to UTC. (If anyone knows how to do this I'd like to here). In this light I'd written of the TZ feature in windows as almost worthless. David Gamey _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
