In a very interesting article I found in The Economist, apparently at 10pm it's still light out in Argentina. The newly elected president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has set clocks ahead an hour for 11 weeks because of critical energy shortages.
Further along in the article, a Mendozan journalist expresses her discontent saying, "you never fall asleep before 1am, and then you wake up exhausted in the morning, and it's still dark outside. One of the pleasures of summer used to be waking up to the songbirds. Not any more.”
Argentina isn't the only Latin American country tampering with the time; Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is also adjusting the clocks. Last month he shifted time back by an 1/2 and hour in order to "[ensure] children go to school in daylight."
If you're interested, here's a link to the article:
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566820
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