MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Chile in summer time, forwards clocks 60 minutes

Chile is in summer time with clocks having advanced sixty minutes during the weekend. This means that Chile's Dalylight Summer time is three hours behind Greenwish mean time.

At 24:00 hour Saturday night, clocks were advanced to 01:00 hours of Sunday October 12th in Chilean territory and "Chilean Antarctica", according to the official report. Easter Island also moved sixty minutes, but still remains one hour behind mainland Chile According to the Chilean Ministry of Interior release the measure implements will extend from the second Saturday of October to the second Saturday of next March at 24:00 hours. The measure is geared to take advantage of summer sun light and save energy. The decision is based in a 1970 decree.