Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in September

[chokkan 2]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has changed his country's name, redesigned its flag and rejigged its coat of arms in his drive for a socialist state. Now the leftist reformer, highly popular for redistributing oil income, is seeking to move the country's time zone to offer a more equitable distribution of sunlight.

Venezuela in September will turn clocks back by 30 minutes as it switches time zones to boost the amount of natural light to residents, a government official said on Thursday.




half an hour ?!  that's annoying ..........

[frblckstr1]

^ and everybody will complain that there is a bug in Windows(/Vista) because it doesn't show the time correctly

BTW I do not like the 1-hour versions either...

[JFC]

Meh, 30 min isn't that big of a change, though if they observe Daylight Savings Time it could get annoying.

[reyfer]

That is one of the stupidest things this @#%&%$//"!!!@@@@ son of a b**** president has done.

[ctz]

Well I don't think changing time zone is stupid... The whole Europe is changing time two times in a year and in Australia they use those wacky +30min time zones...

But if he is doing it just to help poor children to wake up... That's sounds kinda stupid Saving electricity is a different thing.