Jonathan Lennox is on the time zone mailing list as lennox@cs... --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Lennox [mailto:lennox@cnr.cs.columbia.edu] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:28 PM To: List Time Zone (E-mail) Subject: Hokkaido "Daylight Savings Time" experiment last summer I don't think this has been mentioned yet on the time zone list. This past summer, a number of companies in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido in northern Japan, experimented with a trial-run of Daylight Savings Time in order to boost the local economy, which seems to have been somewhat successful. The experiment seems to have involved just changing working hours, rather than actually changing the clocks, but there are proposals to apply it officially. News stories, in English: Japan Times: <http://202.221.217.59/print/news/nn08-2004/nn20040819a9.htm> Asahi Shimbun: <http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200408170187.html> I originally spotted this in this week's issue of The Economist, but given the track record (see the comment on Asia/Baghdad) I thought I'd confirm it elsehwere. -- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu