{"id":468,"date":"2016-04-19T22:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T02:47:47","slug":"new-time-zone-for-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/new-time-zone-for-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"New time zone for South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual move, a new time zone will take effect in South America from the 1st of May. As part of a measure to battle an energy crisis in Venezuela, the president also gave the public sector every Friday off until at least June 6th &#8211; to save electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the entire country will change timezone from UTC -4h30 to UTC-4 from 01MAY,\u00a0to ensure more daylight in the evening when energy consumption peaks.<\/p>\n<p>At SVMI\/Simon Bolivar, Primary radar has been off the air since 04APR &#8211; and remains out of service until the end of May &#8211; it&#8217;s unclear if this is electricity related.<\/p>\n<p>If operating to Venezuela after 01MAY, local time will therefore be <strong>4 hours behind UTC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual move, a new time zone will take effect in South America from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,319],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-news-item"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}