On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:46:38 -0700, retired mainframer wrote:

>If it were only that easy.  Parts of Texas are in two different time zones.
>I believe at least one other state is split also.  Some states in Australia
>implement DST while others don't.  Russia spans multiple time zones while
>all of China is administered in one.
> 
GIYF.  At:
    http://www.world-timedate.com/timezone/timezone_info_by_county.php

I easily find the the timezone for El Paso is "America/Denver" and for Houston
it's " America/Chicago".  Yes, it's imperfect, to wit:

    http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-September/008765.html

... etc.  But it's still possible to do far better than z/OS which performs
time conversions incorrectly for most of America for 2006 and earlier.

-- gil

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