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New Venezuela's time by warmth on 12-17-2007 at 05:06 PM

Please WDZ check this out... I hope you can do something about it... :$

quote:
Originally posted by IBM
The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has announced on 27 November 2007 that a change to the time zone for the country, which to date has typically observed South America Western Standard Time. The start date for new time zone is projected to occur on December 9, 2007. When customers move to the new time zone, clocks will move backwards 30 minutes, from UTC -4:00 to UTC -4:30. This change begins at 2:59:59 AM local time on the start date. Clocks should be moved back to 2:30:00 AM rather than advancing to 3:00:00 AM.

See official announcement Number 38.819 for more details.

Systems and applications in countries that are not implementing this changes could be affected if they support users, transactions, or applications involving Venezuela. For example, scheduling or synchronizing problems may arise where systems make or check date or time stamps relating to transactions in Venezuela, or there may be difficulty in applications that perform scheduling calculations.

UPDATE: watch this for tests...
RE: New Venezuela's time by WDZ on 12-17-2007 at 10:08 PM

ok, I added GMT -4:30 to the list of time zone options :p


RE: New Venezuela's time by warmth on 12-17-2007 at 11:12 PM

thanks my friend :D!!!