In an attempt to conserve energy, Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, announced in April that the country’s time zone would change on May 1, with clocks moving ahead a half hour (to take advantage of light in the afternoon), making it exactly four hours ahead of GMT. Venezuela has been 30 minutes behind GMT-4 time since 2007, when then-president Hugo Chavez made the change.
On April 22, the government announced that for the next 40 days in the most populous states,...
CONTINUE READING »