Having no desire to explain StarDates (you can find out all about them in the SFMANUAL), I have noticed that there is, at times, a confusion arising as to what the true time is for the last 4 digits of the star date. It is necessary, as this games spans the globe, to denote either your local time zone or convert to G.M.T. Since none of us are fully conversant with timezones, I went surfing and developed the following information. Please recognize my humanity and allow for any mistakes in the following information. If you find an error, please e-mail me (jjfinsel@iac.net) with a kind correction. I hope this is of some use to you. Josef ========================================================================= The standard timezones are: Eastern European - GMT+0200/0300 Middle European - GMT+0100/0200 Eastern African - GMT+0300 Central African - GMT-0200 Western African - GMT+0000 Southern African - GMT+0200 Newfoundland - GMT-0330 Atlantic - GMT-0400 Eastern - GMT-0500 Central - GMT-0600 Mountain - GMT-0700 Pacific - GMT-0800 Eastern - GMT-0500 Central - GMT-0600 Mountain - GMT-0700 Pacific - GMT-0800 Alaska - GMT-0900 Hawaii - GMT-1000 Aleutian Islands - GMT-1000 Afghanistan GMT+0430 Kabul Albania GMT+0100 Tirana Algeria GMT+0100 Algiers American Samoa GMT-1100 Pago Pago Andorra GMT+0100 Andorra la Vella (NTP) Angola GMT+0100 Luanda Anguilla GMT-0400 Antigua and Barbuda GMT-0400 Argentina GMT-0300 Buenos Aires Armenia GMT+0300 Yerevan Australia GMT+0930 Adelaide, South Australia (NTP) Australia GMT+1000 Australian Capital Territory (NTP) Australia GMT+1000 Brisbane, Queensland Australia GMT+0700 Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Australia GMT+0630 Cocos Islands Australia GMT+0930 Darwin, Northern Territory Australia GMT+1000 Hobart, Tasmania (NTP) Australia GMT+1030 Lord Howe Island Australia GMT+1000 Melbourne, Victoria (NTP) Australia GMT+1130 Norfolk Island Australia GMT+0800 Perth, Western Australia (NTP) Australia GMT+1000 Sydney, New South Wales (NTP) Austria GMT+0100 Vienna (NTP) Azerbaijan GMT+0300 Baku Bahamas GMT-0500 Nassau Bahrain GMT+0300 Al Manama Bangladesh GMT+0600 Dhaka Barbados GMT-0400 Belgium GMT+0100 Brussels Belize GMT-0600 Belmopan Belorussia GMT+0200 Minsk Benin GMT+0100 Porto Novo Bolivia GMT-0400 La Paz Bosnia-Herzegovina GMT+0100 Sarajevo Botswana GMT+0200 Gaborone Brazil GMT-0500 Manaus Brazil GMT-0300 Porto Acre Brazil GMT-0400 Rio de Janeiro Brunei GMT+0800 Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria GMT+0200 Sofia Bulgaria GMT+0200 Varna Burkina GMT+0000 Ougadougou Burma GMT+0630 Yangon Burundi GMT+0200 Bujumbura Cambodia GMT+0700 Phnom Penh Cameroon GMT+0100 Yaounde Canada GMT-0700 Calgary, Alberta Canada GMT-0400 Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada GMT-0400 Goose Bay, Newfoundland Canada GMT-0400 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada GMT-0500 Montreal, Quebec Canada GMT-0600 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (NTP) Canada GMT-0330 St Johns, Newfoundland Canada GMT-0500 Toronto, Ontario (NTP) Canada GMT-0800 Vancouver, British Columbia (NTP) Canada GMT-0800 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Canada GMT-0600 Winnipeg, Manitoba (NTP) Cape Verde GMT-0100 Praia, Santiago Cayman Islands GMT-0500 Central African Republic GMT+0100 Bangui Chad GMT+0100 Ndjamena Chile GMT-0400 Santiago (NTP) Colombia GMT-0500 Bogota Congo GMT+0100 Brazzaville Costa Rica GMT-0600 San Jose Croatia GMT+0100 Zagreb Cuba GMT-0500 Havana Curacao GMT-0400 Cyprus GMT+0200 Nicosia Czech Republic GMT+0100 Prague Denmark GMT+0100 Copenhagen Djibouti GMT+0300 Djibouti Dominica GMT-0400 Dominican Republic GMT-0400 Santo Domingo Easter Island GMT-0500 Hanga Roa Ecuador GMT-0500 Quito Egypt GMT+0200 Cairo El Salvador GMT-0600 San Salvador Equatorial Guinea GMT+0100 Bata Equatorial Guinea GMT+0100 Malabo Estonia GMT+0200 Tallinn Ethiopia GMT+0300 Adis Abeba Falkland Islands GMT-0400 Stanley Fiji GMT+1200 Suva Finland GMT+0200 Helsinki Finland GMT+0200 Tampere France GMT+0100 Paris French Guiana GMT-0300 Cayenne French Polynesia GMT-0930 Papeete, Tahiti Gabon GMT+0100 Libreville Galapagos Islands GMT-0600 Isla Isabella Galapagos Islands GMT-0600 Santa Cruz Georgia GMT+0300 Tbilisi Germany GMT+0100 Berlin Germany GMT+0100 Konstanz (NTP) Ghana GMT+0000 Accra Greece GMT+0200 Athens Greece GMT+0200 Heraklion, Crete Greenland GMT-0200 Godthab (Nuuk) Greenland GMT-0100 Scoresbysund Grenada GMT-0400 Guadeloupe GMT-0400 Guatemala GMT-0600 Guatemala Guinea Bissau GMT+0000 Bissau Guyana GMT-0300 Georgetown Haiti GMT-0500 Port au Prince Hawaii, USA: GMT-1000 Honolulu Honduras GMT-0600 Tegucigalpa Hong Kong GMT+0800 Bombay Hong Kong GMT+0800 Calcutta Hong Kong GMT+0800 Kowloon Hungary GMT+0100 Budapest Iceland GMT+0000 Reykjavik Indonesia GMT+0800 Bali, Borneo and Timor Indonesia GMT+0900 Irian Jaya and the Moluccas Indonesia GMT+0700 Sumatra, Java Iran GMT+0400 Tehran Iraq GMT+0300 Baghdad Ireland GMT+0000 Dublin (NTP) Israel GMT+0200 Jerusalem Italy GMT+0100 Torino (NTP) Ivory Coast GMT+0000 Abidjan Jamaica GMT-0500 Kingston Japan GMT+0900 Tokyo (NTP) Jordan GMT+0300 Amman Juan Fernandez Islands GMT-0500 San Juan Bautista Kazakhstan GMT+0400 Alma-Ata Kazakhstan GMT+0500 Gur'yev Kenya GMT+0300 Nairobi Kiribati GMT+1200 Gilbert Islands Kiribati GMT-1100 Phoenix Islands Korea, North GMT+0900 P'yong Yang Korea, South GMT+0900 Seoul Kuwait GMT+0300 Al Kuwayt Kyrgystan GMT+0500 Tashkent Laos GMT+0700 Viangchan Latvia GMT+0200 Riga Lebanon GMT+0200 Beirut Lesotho GMT+0200 Maseru Liberia GMT+0000 Monrovia Libya GMT+0100 Tripoli Liechtenstein GMT+0100 Vaduz Lithuania GMT+0200 Vilnius Luxembourg GMT+0100 Luxembourg Macao GMT+0800 Macao Macedonia GMT+0100 Skopje Madagascar GMT+0300 Antananarivo Malawi GMT+0200 Blantyre Malaysia GMT+0800 Kuala Lumpur Mali GMT+0000 Bamako Malta GMT+0100 Valetta Mariana Islands GMT+1000 Guam Martinique GMT-0400 Mauritania GMT+0000 Nouakchott Mexico GMT-0600 Baja California Norte Mexico GMT-0700 Baja California Sur Mexico GMT-0500 Mexico City Midway Islands GMT-1100 Midway Naval Station Montserrat GMT-0400 Morocco GMT+0000 Casablanca Mozambique GMT+0200 Beira Namibia GMT+0200 Windhoek Nauru GMT+1100 Yaren New Caledonia GMT+1100 Noumea New Caledonia GMT+1100 Noumea New Zealand GMT+1200 Auckland New Zealand GMT+1200 Wellington (NTP) New Zealand Territories GMT+1245 Chatham Island New Zealand Territories GMT-1030 Cook Islands Niger GMT+0100 Niamey Nigeria GMT+0100 Lagos Norway GMT+0100 Oslo (NTP) Oman GMT+0400 Muscat Pakistan GMT+0500 Lahore Panama GMT-0500 Panama Papua New Guinea GMT+1000 Port Moresby Paraguay GMT-0400 Asuncion People's Republic of China GMT+0800 Mainland China Peru GMT-0500 Lima Philippines GMT+0800 Manila Philippines GMT+0800 Quezon City Pitcairn Island GMT-0900 Adamstown Poland GMT+0200 Wroclaw Portugal GMT+0100 Lisbon Puerto Rico GMT-0400 San Juan Qatar GMT+0300 Dhutan Robinson Crusoe Islands GMT-0500 San Juan Bautista Romania GMT+0200 Bucharest Russian Federation GMT+0300 Moscow Rwanda GMT+0200 Kigali San Marino GMT+0100 San Marino (NTP) Sao Tome and Principe GMT+0000 Sao Tome Saudi Arabia GMT+0300 Riyadh Senegal GMT+0000 Dakar Sierra Leone GMT+0000 Freetown Singapore GMT+0800 Singapore Slovakia GMT+0100 Bratislava Slovakia GMT+0200 Kosice Slovenia GMT+0100 Ljubljana (NTP) Solomon Islands GMT+1100 Honiara Solomon Islands GMT+1100 Honiara Somalia GMT+0300 Mogadishu South Africa GMT+0200 Johannesburg South Georgia GMT-0300 Grytviken Spain GMT+0100 Madrid (NTP) Sri Lanka GMT+0530 Colombo St Kitts-Nevis GMT-0400 St Lucia GMT-0400 St Vincent GMT-0400 Sudan GMT+0200 Khartoum Surinam GMT-0300 Paramaribo Swaziland GMT+0200 Mbabane Sweden GMT+0100 Gothenburg Switzerland GMT+0100 Zurich (NTP) Syria GMT+0200 Damascus Taipei GMT+0800 Taiwan GMT+0800 Tajik GMT+0500 Samarkand Tanzania GMT+0300 Dar es Salaam Thailand GMT+0700 Bangkok The Gambia GMT+0000 Banjul The Netherlands GMT+0100 Amsterdam The Netherlands GMT+0100 Utrecht (NTP) Togo GMT+0000 Lome Tonga GMT+1200 Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Tobago GMT-0400 Port of Spain Turkey GMT+0200 Istanbul Turkmenistan GMT+0500 Ashkhabad Turks and Caicos Islands GMT-0500 Grand Turk Island Tuvalu GMT+1200 Funafuti Uganda GMT+0300 Kampala Ukraine GMT+0200 Kiev United Arab Emirates GMT+0400 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates GMT+0400 Dubai United Kingdom GMT+0000 London Uruguay GMT-0300 Montevideo Uzbekistan GMT+0500 Nukus Vanuatu GMT+1100 Port Vila Venezuela GMT-0400 Caracas Vietnam GMT+0700 Hanoi Vietnam GMT+0700 Saigon Virgin Islands GMT-0400 Western Samoa GMT-1100 Apia Yemen GMT+0300 Aden Yugoslavia GMT+0100 Belgrade Zaire GTM+0100 Kinshasa Zaire GTM+0200 Lubumbashi Zambia GMT+0200 Lusaka Zimbabwe GMT+0200 Harare 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