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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/13/2014 06:29 PM, Matt Johnson
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<div dir="ltr"> Cumulatively this could have an economic impact,
so one would think it would be in a countries own best interest
to give sufficient notice.
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One would think so, especially seen the actual rather significant
cost for all company's doing business in that country/region to make
sure all systems (if it is at all possible or even noticed before
it's to late that it is affected ) are up to date .<br>
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I think it often bottoms down to (some form of) ignorance.<br>
Something like "How hard can it be to set the clock one hour
forward" , ignoring or not having a clue of the impact this is
having.<br>
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I highly doubt the politicians who make these kind of "hey i have a
great idea, let's change the start date / introduce / stop with
using DST next week/month" would be in any way way bothered by some
kind of "international guidelines".<br>
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IMHO the only real impact would be to have some big (local)
company's knock on that door and ask to stop this silly behavior.
But of course the people who might actually do that (ceo etc level)
just yell at the tech people to "get it fixed"..<br>
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And then you have of course the cultural/social factor introduced by
linking daylight saving to the Ramadan, who's start date is a
variable factor.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan#Beginning">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan#Beginning</a><br>
Something for which I see no real solution besides country's like
Morocco or Egypt deciding to not use an other offset during the
Ramadan period.<br>
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Just my 2 cents :)<br>
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Gunther<br>
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