{"id":12941,"date":"2015-08-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12941"},"modified":"2015-08-20T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:18:41","slug":"countries-can-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/countries-can-time-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries Can Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/082015_1214_CountriesCa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist took a look at countries that attempt to mess with the time-space continuum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Korea has decided to go back in time. A few days ago it turned its clocks back an hour to establish a new time zone for itself.<\/li>\n<li>The insular country probably thinks the unique time zone is a metaphor for the country&#8217;s exceptionalism.<\/li>\n<li>The rest of the world probably thinks that the country going backwards in time is a good metaphor for the economic and social policies of the Hermit Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Other countries use time zones to assert their authority. Despite their size, India and China, for example, impose one clock on their entire populace.<\/li>\n<li>Hugo Chavez turned Venezuela&#8217;s clocks back so that it wouldn&#8217;t share the same time zone as the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Messing with time is a millennia old practice. The Roman Senate named the month of July after Julius Caesar.<\/li>\n<li>When they decided to honour Augustus Caesar with his own month, they had to mess around with the days in several other months so that Augustus&#8217; month was no shorter than Julius&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Not all changes stick. France once tried to introduce a ten hour clock and Turkmenistan&#8217;s former President tried to rename every day and month, including a month just for his mother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about other changes that haven&#8217;t stood the test of\u2026.time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21660980-clocks-and-calendars-provide-timeless-way-regimes-illustrate-their-power-rulers-time?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21660980-clocks-and-calendars-provide-timeless-way-regimes-illustrate-their-power-rulers-time?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist took a look at countries that attempt to mess with the time-space continuum: North Korea has decided to go back in time. A few days ago it turned its clocks back an hour to establish a new time zone for itself. The insular country probably thinks the unique time zone is a metaphor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/082015_1214_CountriesCa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}