Welcome to Daylight Saving Time, Indiana. Seriously

Residents of many counties in Indiana experienced the joy of losing an hour’s sleep overnight for the very first time last night, as the entire state is now observing Daylight Saving Time. Up until today, the vast majority of the state never deviated from Eastern Standard Time, while a handful used Daylight Time and another […]
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Residents of many counties in Indiana experienced the joy of losing an hour's sleep overnight for the very first time last night, as the entire state is now observing Daylight Saving Time. Up until today, the vast majority of the state never deviated from Eastern Standard Time, while a handful used Daylight Time and another group aligned their clocks to Chicago.

Since Indiana's arcane time system had prompted most software-makers, including Apple, to accommodate their strange rules, work-arounds and fixes to properly display the time were put in place this morning, as well. You can read Apple's Knowledge Base note on the subject. Apparently the 10.4.5 update was partially to address Daylight Saving Time changes. Sorry, Indiana Panther users; you'll have to choose Detroit or another eastern time zone city if you want to keep proper time.