I like the idea of expanding the info.txt .. time zone column=20 Fine by me. How is time zone expressed? Simply giving a numeric = offset from GMT is problematic for places that observe daylight savings = time - we'd have to update the file twice every year. Can we use = something like PST8PDT?? Bob A box of worms: So there is 1h, 30min and 15min timezones and some +300 local daylight savings rules. Suggestion is that you put the current UTC offset in the file, and have a local batch/cron job that modifies it according to local DST rules. For those intertested, http://www.iana.org/time-zones has the list... -:) --Peter