Reminder to people who have international meetings: the next week is George W Bush Golfing Time. The USA and Europe had an agreement to move clocks at the same time, so the time difference remained constant. George W Bush decided he wanted a few weeks more golfing time, so unilaterally moved the USA’s Daylight Saving Time. This move remains in effect so there are a few weeks of annoying disruption each year.

I made the mistake of flying the first time this happened, which is how I knew about it: the airlines were unprepared and sold me tickets on two flights where the time change meant that my slightly tight 45-minute change turned into a -15 minute connection time (fortunately the second flight was on a route they flew every two hours so I was only an hour late)l

@coder @david_chisnall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Change_to_daylight_saving_time mentions that the “Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association” pushed for the change.

@coder @david_chisnall source: https://web.archive.org/web/20050728012352/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/26/dim_witted_proposal_for_daylight_time/

@andrewg @coder @david_chisnall ah, nice. I think I misread a bit the original toot; I thought the DST *differences* between US and Europe granted GWB more golf time somehow.

But I think I made up that idea in my head because it was too fun :)

(I worked in a US company for a while with recurring meetings created by someone in Mexico. I believe their DST transitions are also different? In any case, there was some chaos during two weeks a year.)