[Wade Leftwich] > Cheer up, Tim. In Newfoundland they run their clocks three and a > half hours behind GMT. Ya, and I'm told that Chatham Island, New Zealand, is GMT + 12 hours and 45 minutes. Unfortunately for me, 3.5 and 12.75 are both exactly representable as binary floats -- even an infant couldn't make a mistake with simple fractions like that <wink>.