[spacehome]

Daylight Savings Time has some ill effects, true, but if you think that making life easier for programmers is a point that should convince the general public, you're sorely out of touch. For one, it's not all that difficult in the scheme of things. For another, programmers dealing with dates in the past will always have to consider it. Lastly, the general perception is that programmers get paid quite well enough and can suck it up and deal with this minor annoyance.

[uptown]

Just wait till we travel to other planets' timezones. That's when programmers will really earn their paychecks.

[happyscrappy]

Or when timezones depend on how fast you are traveling.