This is really interesting: Venezuela is changing its time by half an hour. Yes, it’s nutty, but the only other country I know of (and there may be others, it would be fun to see who else goes for this) that is half an hour different from its neighbors is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Further proof of the growing intimacy between the two countries?
Well, they both have student demonstrations against The Leader, don’t they?
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E. Garak:Afghanistan, Australia, and India also have such time zones.
Iran standard time has been GMT + 3.5 hours since before the revolution.
ML:
Well we were just in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and never ran into it…Afghanistan and India are part of the Iranian neighborhood, right?
Dec 9, 2007 - 3:57 pm winston:Well, Iranian regime’s IRGC have been training Venezuelan para-military to become a Latin American version of IRGC/Basij militias. These two countries are copying each other.
ML:
Just so.
Dec 9, 2007 - 6:06 pm David W. Lincoln:Newfoundland has its own time zone as well. 1.5 hours earlier than either eastern standard time or eastern daylight savings time.
Newfoundland being the most recent addition to the Confederation of Canada.
But then again, Canadians from any of the other 9 provinces or 3 territories conclude that there are uniquenesses about Newfoundland/Labrador that are pleasant - which is hardly the case for Chavez or the mullahs running Iran into the ground.
Dec 9, 2007 - 9:06 pm E. Garak:South Australia and Northern Territory have “half-integer” time zones. Victorian and New South Wales (where you visited) do not.
Dec 14, 2007 - 4:37 am