Venezuela moves clocks forward 30 min to save power

Venezuela announced Friday it is shifting its time zone forward 30 minutes to save power and alleviate a severe electricity crisis the government blames on the El Nino weather phenomenon. The move, effective May 1, will scrap a half-hour subtraction to the clocks Venezuela's late former president Hugo Chavez introduced in 2007 that gave his country a slight offset to its neighbors. The modified time will see Caracas go back to four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) -- sharing the same hour