Newsletter Newsletters Events Events Podcasts Videos Africanews
Loader
Advertisement

Venezuela reverses half-hour time change

Venezuela reverses half-hour time change
Copyright 
By Euronews
Published on
Share this article Comments
Share this article Close Button
Copy/paste the article video embed link below: Copy to clipboard Copied

Venezuela has reversed a half-hour time change that was one of the signature measures of former president Hugo Chavez’s idiosyncratic 14-year rule

Venezuela has reversed a half-hour time change that was one of the signature measures of former president Hugo Chavez’s idiosyncratic 14-year rule.

Chavez turned Venezuela’s clocks back 30 minutes in 2007 so that children could wake up for school in daylight.

But his successor Nicolas Maduro has decided to return to the previous system, four hours behind GMT, to ensure more daylight in the evening when energy consumption peaks.

A severe drought is affecting the Guri reservoir that provides two-thirds of Venezuela’s power needs, and water and electricity outages are frequent.

“Right now we are four and a half hours behind; we will move to being 4 hours behind Greenwich meantime. We will return to the time zone on the 60th parallel west,” Science Minister Jorge Arreaza said.

Go to accessibility shortcuts
Share this article Comments

Read more

Latest US 'narco boat' strike kills six off Venezuelan coast

Venezuela to close embassy in Norway after opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela shows off Russian fighter jets in Caribbean military exercise amid tensions with US