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Maybe if you want to schedule a meeting for 4pm local time, no matter the time zone. Some countries have very unpredictable daylight saving schedules.

(For example, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551195 - "To keep on with the great work our government has done the past two years of deciding stuff with 2 or 3 days of anticipation, the government has just decided that we won't switch to DST this Sunday.")




For the curious, the government in question was argentina.


Australia also has some interesting history with daylight savings. I remember it being used for a discussion of DateTimeOffset in .net because it could showcase all the different scenarios.




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