Yeah, the Newfies have their own time zone—although maybe they share it with Venezuela now. I can’t imagine scheduling a conference call among people from Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
OK, I looked it up, and Newfoundland is in UTC -3:30 while Venezuela was (from 2009-2017) in UTC -4:30, so Newfoundland always had its time zone to itself. The changes in time zone in Venezuela are a microcosm of how Communism works:
“In December 2007, Hugo Chávez changed, via decree, the official meridian to meridian 67° 30’ W, the same used between 1912 and 1965. As result, the standard time was UTC−04:30, half an hour behind the previous time which eventually led to an increase in energy consumption.
On 15 April 2016, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela would reverse Chávez’s time change due to the shortage of electricity (the country’s hydroelectric power has been hit by low water levels[1]) in Venezuela, with a return to UTC−04:00 which began on 1 May 2016 at 03:00:00.”