I'm not sure about the JRE by itself, however a check on the Sun, IBM, and Oracle site should shed some light on it. I always just install the SDK, which includes the JRE. Thanks, Gene Poole gene.poole@xxxxxxx On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 48:15 +1030, Tim wrote: > I presume you don't mean the JRE. I've never seen any way that you > could tell it to use a particular timezone, so it must be able to tell > what your local one is by itself.