[LEAPSECS] Time is changing in Venezuela

[Barberi]

On September 24, 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
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>

> I don't remember any discussions at the Washington Conference about

> restrictions on the scope of their universal time system. As far as I

> remember, their recommendation was that all countries should adopt the

> American time zone system of integer hour offsets from UT, as an

> intermediate step towards everyone using zulu time for everyday purposes.

>


Funny, I was just helping some kids with a project on the 1884 Washington
Conference.  Various ideas for time zone systems were discussed, but no 
recommendation was made.  They did propose the adoption of a universal day 
(GMT), but it was not to interfere with the use of local or standard time.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17759

-- Steve Barberi