>1. Business hours must be kept in sync with the important countries next to them. This is important for communications between companies. I'm going to echo an

>1. Business hours must be kept in sync with the important countries next to them. This is important for communications between companies. I'm going to echo another responder here: this is total BS. Here in America, it's completely routine for companies on opposite coasts to do business with each other, and there's a 3-hour time difference year-round. If we can handle that, surely Europeans can handle a 1-hour difference.