Time Zone change in Argentina approved yesterday night at congress

Thursday, 27 December 2007 23:52 by Selecters

Starting December 30th 2007 at 12:00a, Argentina adopts Daylight Saving Time.

Background

The government of Argentina has announced the implementation of daylight saving time (DST) in Argentina. The following are the start and end dates for the daylight saving time defined:

Daylight saving time begins:  Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 00:00 A.M local standard time.
Daylight saving time ends:  Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at 00:00 A.M local daylight saving time.
Currently, computers in Argentina use the “(GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires, Georgetown” time zone setting. However, the default values for the “(GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires, Georgetown” time zone setting in Microsoft Windows do not reflect the daylight saving time start and end dates defined by the government.
As this change was announced by the government with a very short time in advance from to the actual date of the change, there was no time for Microsoft to provide an update for the operating systems. Given this situation, this is a procedure you can use to create a new Time Zone for Argentina until Microsoft releases the corresponding update.

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eBay The Vote - Argentina

Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:00 by Selecters
Voters in Argentina's upcoming presidential election have found an interesting solution to their political apathy: eBay. 'New and unused' votes are being posted from $0.30 to $95. Electoral authorities say they're powerless to stop it. 'Argentine electoral authorities say they can do little to stop the practice because it falls into a legal vacuum. One of the voters, Martin Minue, a doctor from the northern province of Rioja, told a newspaper it was his way to protest against useless politicians. Mr Minue, 33, told the Clarin paper he felt powerless to change the country's situation. The doctor, who works in the city of Chilecito, posted his vote on an auction website with a price tag of 20 pesos (US$6).

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October 5. REMEMBER. SAY NO TO TERRORISM.

Friday, 5 October 2007 00:42 by Selecters

Today we are summoned by the reminder of our victims. Another intention does not encourage us, to honor the dead men in hands of the terrorism.
They were innocent victims of a killer rabble, which was imposing the terror for the terror itself, in order that they were weakening our forces and power of defense. They did not achieve it.
These dead men, these victims, were and they are a part of OUR Argentine. Some of them were selected selectively, for representing values inside the community. Or, they have fallen down in fulfillment of his duty: DEFEND THE COUNTRY FROM FOREIGN INTERESTS.
Others were dead at random, for killer bombs that could kill anyone. The remaining ones were riddled for belonging to the FFAA (armed forces) or FFSS (security forces).
Precisely they were looking for what ultimately they found, the total managing of the public thing.
The question arises without doing it for why people of this pattern, today is in many estates of the government? Under my point of view the response is the alone one, not civil participation. Not fulfillment of the citizens' duties.
We are for the justice and the peace. We are for that our mother land is a republic, such as our legacy so beaten National Constitution, a judicial independent power and, a legislative independent power.
We want to live in a republic, which is our dear Argentina, where to honor our dead men it is not a crime.
Inside this frame of full justice, independent justice, we must find the solution to our problems.
On October 5 at 18:30 in Plaza San Martin. Our dead men forgotten claim it.

 

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