If you are thinking in international rather than local American terms some timezone names are problematic/ambiguous. An example. Australia has three time zones:
o AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time, which becomes AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time for part of the year, with conventions reversed from those of the Northern Hemisphere; o ACST, Australian Central Standard Time, and ACDT, Australian Central Daylight Time; and o AWST, Australian Western Standard Time, without an AWDT. So far, so good; but the 'A' prefix is fairly recent and not always used; and when it is omitted EST, EDT, CST, and CDT are internationally ambiguous. You could resolve such ambiguities---There are many of them---if you had an ISO country code at hand too. Do you? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
