I'm with you, gnu. Try running a business when yer in St John's and yer customer is in Victoria. And if a place like the UK thinks it has difficulties, imagine living in Russia:

"Russia Reduces Number of Time Zones

Published 23-Mar-2010. Changed 4-May-2010

Update: Russia will most likely make a final decision on time zone changes in the fall (autumn) of 2010, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov announced on Friday, April 30, 2010. There are currently three time zones in the Russian Far East, and the presidential envoy to the federal district, Viktor Ishayev, believed that one more should be dropped.

Starting Sunday March 28, 2010, Russia will have nine time zones instead of 11. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently signed decrees to abolish the time zones of four Russian regions."