For awhile now tst-timezone dumps core in __tzfile_read, in this loop: 277 for (i = 0; i < num_types; ++i) 278 __tzname[types[i].isdst] = __tzstring (&zone_names[types[i].idx]); num_types is absurdly large, so it runs off the end of the array. Probably the bug is in decode(). zw