Thursday, September 20, 2007

Almost as loopy as those "Open for Business" signs




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

"I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead, let them call me whatever they want," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "I'm not to blame. I received a recommendation and said I liked the idea."

The few dozen IT remaining professionals in Venezuela will likely be joining whatever passes for a resistance in that new "worker's paradise" after Hugo's latest declaration.


The change will put Venezuela on its own time zone, shared by no other country. Several countries have adopted times that put them half an hour ahead or behind neighbours, and Nepal's official time is just 15 minutes ahead of that of India.

Venezuelan businesses are now scrambling to call in technicians to reprogram their computers for the time change.


Most countries advertise in the media any planned changes in clock times for months before the implementation date.


But Chavez's government has only aired slots promoting the idea in principle without educating people on how to do it. (Sounds kinda like the way our minuscule reduction on the sales tax on food was implemented doesn't it?)

Hugo must be smoking the same stuff Governor Manchin was that same fateful day he came up with an idea equally ludicrous:

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