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Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−04:00 or UTC−05:00 time zone; however, it actually uses the UTC−03:00 time zone. Argentina determines whether to change clocks in observation of daylight saving time on a year-by-year basis, and individual provinces may opt out of the federal decision.
Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during part of the year, typically by one hour around spring and summer, so that daylight ends at a later time of the day.
The circulation of newspapers in Argentina peaked in 1983, with a sale of 1,420,417 copies overall. Two decades later it declined to 1,109,441 copies, and to 1,038,955 copies in 2012. Clarín remains the largest newspaper in Argentina, despite the fall in both total circulation and market share, which peaked at almost 500,000 copies and 35% of ...
This article includes a list of Argentine provinces by gross regional product, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, and other main indicators.
Navy Day (Dia de la Armada Argentina) on May 17. Not a holiday. May Week (Semana de Mayo) on May 18-24. Not a holiday. Army Day (Dia del Ejercito Argentino) on May 29. Not a holiday (but working holiday in the Army). Father's Day (Día del Padre) on the third Sunday of June. Not a holiday. Friend's Day (Día del Amigo) on July 20. Not a holiday.
Tragic Week (Spanish: Semana Trágica), also known as Bloody Week, [1] [2] was a series of riots and massacres that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from January 7 to 14, 1919. An uprising led by anarchists and communists was eventually crushed by the Argentine Federal Police , the military , and the Argentine Patriotic League .
Patagonia Rebelde (or Patagonia Trágica) ("Rebel Patagonia" or "Tragic Patagonia" in English) was the name given to the uprising and violent suppression of a rural workers' strike in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia between 1920 and 1922.
The Republic of Argentina has not established, legally, an official language; however, Spanish has been utilized since the founding of the Argentine state by the administration of the Republic and is used in education in all public establishments, so much so that in basic and secondary levels there is a mandatory subject of Spanish (a subject called "language").