I'm forwarding this message from José Miguel Parrella Romero, who sent it before joining the time zone mailing list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: José Miguel Parrella Romero [mailto:joseparrella@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 3:30 To: Patrice Scattolin Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: Venezuela's switch to UTC-0430 Patrice Scattolin escribió:

More importantly, does anyone know how likely that said change be adopted? When is it expected to be adopted?

It would be risky to say that the change _will_ be adopted, but the forecast says it will, due to political reasons. Though it was said to be adopted on Jan 1 2008, today's newspapers stated that the government is trying to push it in order to make the switch in Sep 17 2007. They also said that the government will notify all international organizations when the decision is taken. Jose