> You could avoid the exception by renaming the class 'UCT' to > something else (e.g. '_UCT'). I think that will not produce the > desired behavior however since it looks like 'UCT' is supposed to be > a singleton. > Thank you Neil - that's a big help. I was hoping to take advantage of the work done but if I must I can cook up tzinfo classes on my own for the dozen or so I really need. I'll have a deeper look and also talk to the package developer. Mike 'zoning in and out and not just on New Years''ly Watkins