In April this year, the New Zealand government announced that Daylight Savings in New Zealand would start 1 week earlier than previous years, and end 2 weeks later.

Microsoft got on board and released a fix for Windows users. Apple ignored the announcement (and pleas from New Zealand Mac users).

As I’ve said before, Apple’s support for non-US countries has been poor at times, and this is probably Apple’s biggest insult to the people of New Zealand. Too bad if you’re a New Zealand Mac user using your machine in a corporate environment. As if it isn’t hard enough trying to use a Mac in a corporate world full of Windows machines!

Such a small fix that could have been included in one of Apple’s many updates since April. Surely with all the money they’ve made from the iPhone and iPod they could have spared a resource to implement and test a fix that would have been no more than a few days work?

What was the reason? New Zealand too small a market? Was Apple too busy with their iPhone and iPod touch to bother caring about existing customers and existing products?

Apple should be ashamed.