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If I live in Guam I will probably be using an en_US locale. However the "US" territory does not contain my time zone. Probably the best solution for this problem is to add a category of possessions to the territory information. This allows applications to enumerate available time zones for not only the country itself but also it possessions that might be using the locale.
This issue is not limited to a country's possessions. Many expatriates and travelling business people etc want to keep their (laptop) computer's general locale settings as that of their home country (not least because changing this often destabilises data) but need to set it to the time zone in which they are temporarily resident. So time zones should be kept independent of other locale information, especially independent of such things as date and decimal point formats, and preferred languages.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
