[thret]

I don't see why it is expected to "put our clocks seriously out of sync with Europe’s, costing airlines $150 million a year". Changing DST shouldn't cause sync problems. More puzzling, why would such a problem only affect Europe?

[throw_away]

this link: http://crankyflier.com/2007/11/05/how-daylight-saving-time-i... says that it's a combination of how airport slots are allocated, the interaction between international and domestic connections and the fact that EU and the US used to be more synchronized in their clock fiddling.

I wonder how much productivity is lost in IT due to spending time dinking with TZ configs, which sometimes involve complex interactions between OS and language platform and are not the easiest thing to test 100% before the switch happens.

Interesting too is the list of lobbyists for and against the energy policy act of 2005:

"Lobbyists for this provision included the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness.

"Lobbyists against this provision included the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the National Parent-Teacher Association, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Air Transport Association"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Chang...