Time in Venezuela

Venezuela uses the UTC−04:00 time offset, and they had previously used UTC−04:30 from 9 December 2007 until 30 April 2016.[1] The time is commonly called Venezuelan Standard Time (VET), and legally referred to as Hora Legal de Venezuela (HLV) or Venezuela's Legal Time. The HLV is administered by the Navigation and Hydrography Service, in the Cagigal Naval Observatory, Caracas.[2]

The official time zone of Venezuela is determined by meridian 60° west of Greenwich, UK.

UTC−04:30 was formerly the official time zone in Venezuela from 1912 to 1965, when the government changed it in order to adopt meridian 60° UTC−04:00, which passes through Punta de Playa, Delta Amacuro State. It was changed again to UTC−04:30 from 2007 to 2016.

  1. ^ "Venezuela Changes Time Zone to Save Electricity". Sky News. 16 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Venezuela's Legal Time Service" (in Spanish). Cagigal Naval Observatory, Caracas: Venezuela's Navigation and Hydrography Service. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.