Brazil Changes Time Zone
in SW Amazon Region
Brazil's President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva on
Friday sanctioned a law
approving a change in
the western Amazon's
time zone.
The law stipulates that
clocks will no longer be
five hours behind
Greewich Mean Time (GMT)
-- the time zone shared
by Peru and Colombia --
in the state of Acre, in
the southwest of the
Amazon rainforest
region, and several
municipalities of the
state of Amazonas.
On June 24, 46
municipalities will join
states in the northern
and midwestern regions
of Brazil, which are
four hours behind GMT,
the same time zone as
that of Bolivia and
Chile.
The measure was taken in
order to help television
networks set their
programming schedules
and follow government
policy that classifies
programs according to
people's ages, avoiding
exposing children to
adult content.
The country's official
time -- the time zone
adopted by Brazil's
federal capital Brasilia
as well as major cities
like Riode Janeiro and
Sao Paulo -- is three
hours behind GMT.
Brazil will cover three
time zones after the
change. Clocks are two
hours behind GMT in the
archipelago of Fernando
de Noronha, in the far
east of the country.
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