I was always under the impression that it was to do with bringing in the harvest...and hence dated back much farther. I'm probably wrong, though
BTW, I have not had a problem either here (W98, 6.12) or at my Dad's (XP, 6.12) (changing BST->GMT). I wonder if there's something which is dependent on the $timezone, too - UK having $timezone = 0 doesn't get affected...wild suggestions; like someone else said - it must be something quite obvious.
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Sais
