Idiocracy In Venezuela

[John Kilduff]

from Reuters:

"CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez wants Venezuelan clocks turned back half an hour and he wants it done in record time -- next Monday."


Not a full hour, or any interval in line with any other country's time zones around the world, but...a half-hour. OK, well, why?

"The shift will allow children to wake up for school in daylight instead of before sunrise, Chavez said."


Implementation?

"In his live show, he (Hugo Chavez) called on his brother, the education minister, so that the two men could explain the measure. But they mistakenly told Venezuelans to move their clocks forward at midnight on Sunday, when the policy is to move them back."

An inconsequential mistake anyone could easily make.


Hugo further explains:

"Chavez dismissed criticism that moving the time only a half hour was quirky, questioning why the world had to follow a scheme of hourly divisions that he said was dictated by the imperial United States."

Naturally.


So it's just like daylight savings time...sort of:

Chavez: "It's something that's done around the world each year and several times a year and here we are just doing it once in a century."

Actually, I probably wouldn't mind getting rid of Daylight Savings Time and just keeping our clocks the same time all year 'round too. But a half-hour adjustment...???

Reuters


P.S. What year are we in now, anyway?