> You can't. They're hopelessly ambiguous. I realize there is ambiguity. But even a list of matching ones would be better than having to do it manually with each new application. For that matter, even using the values from the Olsen database and whatever they default-link to, would allow access to the names for display purposes.
In fact, since I'm really just after the short names for the sake of pretty-printing dates for end-users who aren't impressed by "-08:00" where they'd expect "PDT", I can use any of the matching zones. It just seems a waste to have to iterate over the whole set to get the ones that match a specific offset. Randy -- """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org
