FW: Venezuela's switch to UTC-0430
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: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:48 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Venezuela's switch to UTC-0430 I've read two previous posts in this mailing list regarding Venezuela's change to a new timezone. I feel compelled to clarify the following: * The change is not decided yet. The proposal is coming from a department and involves ammending an act, so it has to be passed to the National Assembly. * In any case, it's not scheduled to happen on 2008. The head of department said it could happen on September 2007, as we begin school terms in that month. Again, it depends on legislative approval. * The currently used meridian is 60º W, in the most eastern part of the country. The new meridian will be 66º, crossing the town of Río Chico, at the middle of the country, so it's expected that the new timezone will be at UTC-0430. In any case, I'd be happy to know what's the standard process on announcing modifications to the public domain timezone database. Jose
Well, posting here with a URL to some official government website documenting the change is about the way to do it. More importantly, does anyone know how likely that said change be adopted? When is it expected to be adopted? Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
* The change is not decided yet. The proposal is coming from a department and involves ammending an act, so it has to be passed to the National Assembly.
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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
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