How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)

Re:How much is time wrong around the world? (2014) by tzs on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:18PM (#17473203)

What is going on with Argentina? It straddles what would be UTC-4 and UTC-5, so one would expect it to be in one of those time zones, or to be a two time zone country using both of those, but it is actually in UTC-3 (which is why it is all deep red in the map).

According to Wikipedia [1]:

> The first official standardization took place on 25 September 1894. The official time switched between UTC−4 and UTC−3 from 1920 to 1969, and then between UTC−3 and UTC−2 from 1974 to 1993. [...] On 7 March 1993, it was fixed at UTC−3, called Argentina Time.

I can sort of see UTC-3 if they felt it was important to be in the same time zone as Brazil...but I can't even come up with a guess as to how UTC-2 was ever an option.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Argentina

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Re:How much is time wrong around the world? (2014) by jersully72 on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:25PM (#17475875)

I suspect it's their preference for daylight in the winter. Which currently in Buenos Aires is about 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Worth noting that the provinces have the option of following DST but choose not to.

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