Think of the dev/test/PM people who worked on this feature.
It's not a standard Windows control, so there had to be lots of work to get the timezone boundaries, map to values usable for their world map bitmap, iterate a bit on the behaviour for when the user clicks at x,y on the map, et. al.
The elation of shipping the minor feature, followed a few months later, with the realization that most of that work is going to be neutered.
