Venezuela time zone change postponed to end of year

[Deborah Goldsmith]

So, is there any chance we can get the change for Brazil in a 2007h,  
while Venezuela is making up its mind? I'd like to get the change for  
Brazil into Mac OS X 10.5, and time is running out...

Thanks,
Deborah

On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Alex Krivenyshev <worldtimezone at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Time Zone change in Venezuela (GMT -04:30) will be postponed for  
>> 2-3 weeks ...
>
> A more-recent story has Venezuela changing "at midnight of December
> 31, or the following morning", which is a bit vague, but sounds like
> the switch is currently planned for at 2008-01-01 00:00 local time.
> See:
>
> Kiraz Janicke, "Crazy" time change for Venezuela sets clocks back to
> 1964, <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2645> (2007-09-25).
>
> Reuters reported that the change will occur "in January".  It also
> reported that when Chavez first made the announcement, he told
> Venezuelans to move their clocks forward, even though that would have
> put them at -03:30 rather than the desired -04:30.  No wonder
> everybody was confused.
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2426299520070924