“It’s a farce”: Expert challenges Chile’s current time zone and says what it should be
Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Expert Arturo Gómez says Chile should keep winter time permanently at UTC-4.
- He acknowledges that much of continental Chile would technically correspond to UTC-5 because of its geographical location.
Arturo Gómez has challenged Chile’s current time-zone arrangement, calling it “a farce” and arguing that the country should keep winter time permanently.
Gómez supports UTC-4 for the country. However, he acknowledges that, based strictly on its geographical location, much of continental Chile would correspond to UTC-5.
It’s a farce.
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Originally published by BioBioChile in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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