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Prfesident Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has decided to put the clocks back half an hour to allow children to go to school in daylight. Problem is, he's scheduled it for next Monday! Would you like that to happen in this country?

Legislation that normally takes years being enacted in just a week? What do you think?
If things have gone right then the changes should already have taken place!

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Asked in Politics asked on: 09/26/2007 08:31am
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11 minutes after the question was opened (09/26/2007 08:42am)

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A week may be very short but I don't this sort of thing needs years to go through...A lot countries go back and foward with changing seasons every year. Where I'm from though its the tropics we've had changes to the time by 1/2 an hour to 1 hour back and forth a few times in the last 1 -2 decades. It only took 1 or 2 months maximum for them to suggest and implement the changes...So although a week seems a little rushed a month or so should be ok.

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38 minutes after the question was opened (09/26/2007 09:09am)

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It seems to me that he is putting the clock back a few years by being so dictatorial ;-)

No, seriously, the way he is doing by diktat may be some concern but this is a fairly benign change with a good purpose.

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