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Yes for some reason I read the following sentence backwards thinking that 410 timezones were observing DST while 185 did not.

> Hmm. 410 timezones just don’t DST at all. 185 have a 3600-second, i.e. 1-hour, difference.

My point stands that there is no normality, just governments taking different decisions and being entitled to it and what the majority does is not relevant.




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