Venezuela: Welcome to the twilight time zone
Venezuela: A Decree for the Clocks
Moved by claims that it will help the metabolismWh?? Help what metabolism?
and productivity of his fellow citizens, President Hugo Chavez said clocks would be moved forward by half an hour at the start of 2008.Effectively this means Venezuela will be in its own time zone. No other country in the Americas has a 1/2 hr difference with its neighbors.
He announced the change on his Sunday television program, accompanied by his highest-ranking science adviser, Hector Navarro, the minister of science and technology. "This is about the metabolic effect, where the human brain is conditioned by sunlight,"Must be that reverse seasonal affective disorder Wikipedia talks about. Since Venezuela's in the tropics it certainly can't be because the sunlight is low in winter.
But then, if I had to live under Hugo, I'd be depressed, too.
Mr. Navarro said in comments reported by Venezuela's official news agency.Of course.
Mr. Chavez said he was "certain" that the time change, which would be accompanied by a move to a six-hour workday, would be accepted.Of course it would be. Not that the Venezuelans have any choice, do they?
(hat tip: Aaron)
Labels: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
posted by Fausta @ 1:54 PM
5 Comments:
This sounds like the movie Bananas.
I am your new president.
From this day on,
the official language
of San Marcos will be Swedish.
{Silence.}
In addition to that,
all citizens will be required
to change their underwear
every half hour.
Underwear will be worn on the outside
so we can check.
Furthermore,
all children under 10 years old
are now 12 years old.
What's the Spanish word
for ''straitjacket''?
Life does imitate art.
No other *country* in the hemisphere may be on a 1/2-hour time zone, but the Canadian province of Newfoundland is in a time zone 90 minutes ahead of EST.
The next thing you know, he'll be claiming that Caracas is the magnetic center of the Earth and the Meccans will attack.
Wait...that might be a good thing!
Hugo: It is decreed that each citizen of the People's Republic of Venezuela will henceforth eat with their mouths. It is scientifically proven that calories taken in this way will prove most beneficial. In order to conserve energy, and lower our carbon foot print, eating with the use of steam shovels is forbidden. Knives, Forks and Spoons are sufficient for the common man.
Damian,
No country in this hemisphere is on a half-hour time zone, but Iran is. Also, if you look at a map, Eastern Maine should be in the Atlantic time zone along with Eastern Canada, but they opted not to be. And Hawaii and some other places in the U.S. don't observe Daylight Savings Time. I don't see what the big deal is.
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