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Daylight Savings Time

alafrontera - 2-18-2010 at 06:07 PM

Twice every year I miss my "appointment" in Tijuana because they don't change time when we do. This year I want to be prepared ;) We begin DST at midnight 03-15, when does Mexico change over? Does all of mainand Mexico / Baja change at the same time?

As always, thanks for the great info available here :)

lizard lips - 2-18-2010 at 06:15 PM

I believe Mexico will keep the same date of change as in US instead of two weeks later.

DENNIS - 2-18-2010 at 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by lizard lips
I believe Mexico will keep the same date of change as in US instead of two weeks later.


Then again, maybe they won't. :lol: I couldn't care less what time other people think it is. I know. I have a watch.

CortezBlue - 2-18-2010 at 06:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by alafrontera
Twice every year I miss my "appointment" in Tijuana because they don't change time when we do. This year I want to be prepared ;) We begin DST at midnight 03-15, when does Mexico change over? Does all of mainand Mexico / Baja change at the same time?

As always, thanks for the great info available here :)


Highly unlikely it is 3/15 as that is a monday. Probably 3/14

Russ - 2-18-2010 at 06:54 PM

I read that there was a bill or something in the Mexican legislature that the States along the boarder would change with the US this year. I don't remember if it passed. I think it did. Not much help but by March some one will give us an official answer.:rolleyes:

[Edited on 2-19-2010 by Russ]

irenemm - 2-18-2010 at 07:00 PM

The bill passed and we in Baja will change our clocks as the U.S. does
finally.

The Gull - 2-18-2010 at 07:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS
Quote:
Originally posted by lizard lips
I believe Mexico will keep the same date of change as in US instead of two weeks later.


Then again, maybe they won't. :lol: I couldn't care less what time other people think it is. I know. I have a watch.


A watch will do you no good, you need a passport.

vandenberg - 2-18-2010 at 07:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Russ
I read that there was a bill or something in the Mexican legislature that the States along the boarder would change with the US this year. I don't remember if it passed. I think it did. Not much help but by March some one will give us an official answer.:rolleyes:

[Edited on 2-19-2010 by Russ]


More likely in April.:biggrin::biggrin:

irenemm - 2-18-2010 at 07:48 PM

daylight saving is March 14th not April

noproblemo2 - 2-18-2010 at 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by irenemm
The bill passed and we in Baja will change our clocks as the U.S. does
finally.

Thank You Irene:tumble:

Riom - 2-19-2010 at 10:48 AM

"Border areas" of Mexico will change to DST at the same time as the USA this year, other parts of Mexico will change later.

Details:
http://www.sanfelipelife.com/post/Time-Zone-changes-for-2010

Rob

alafrontera - 2-19-2010 at 11:47 AM

"Highly unlikely it is 3/15 as that is a monday. Probably 3/14 "

Correct, I msread it, it is midnight 03-14. It said "DST begins 03-15" :rolleyes:

bacquito - 2-20-2010 at 08:15 AM

I like the way Arizona handles it-we don't mess with time changes!! Less cufizin':)

bajabound2005 - 2-20-2010 at 08:33 AM

Clocks will match on both sides of border
Mexican law ends 1-hour difference

By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Monday, December 28, 2009 at 12:09 a.m.

An hour's difference between Tijuana and San Diego for four weeks out of the year has been confounding cross-border travelers since 2007. But that will no longer be the case, thanks to a law passed by Mexico's Congress this month.

Communities along the U.S.-Mexico border will now be synchronized throughout the year under the measure sponsored by Gastón Luken Garza, a freshman member of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies from Tijuana.

"It makes sense for the community and anyone that goes across the border in any direction," said Luken, a political independent elected this year to represent President Felipe Calderón's National Action Party. "It makes life easier for people who work, study, visit on any side of the border."

The cross-border time difference dates to March 2007, when the United States and Canada switched to a new daylight-saving schedule as an energy conservation measure. Mexico did not, remaining on the traditional schedule and switching to daylight-saving time three weeks later.

The time difference replayed that November, when Mexico returned to standard time a week before the United States and Canada. In 2008 and again this year, Tijuana and San Diego remained an hour apart for four weeks of the year, wreaking havoc on many cross-border schedules.

"The fact that it's now uniform helps us a lot," said Javier Martínez Luna, president of the Tijuana Maquiladora Association. "We're one community along the border; the commercial relationship is very strong."

At St. John's Episcopal School in Chula Vista, where more than 40 percent of the student body is from Tijuana, "it can't help but help us," said John Goddard, the head of the school. Students from Tijuana had to get up an hour earlier each spring in order to get to school on time.

In Mexico City, there was little controversy about making the change, which will only affect border communities. The measure passed Mexico's Chamber of Deputies on Dec. 10 with support from all political parties; only two members, from the leftist Workers Party, opposed it. On Dec. 15, support in the Senate was unanimous.

Luken said the change will mean energy savings for Mexico. And the thousands who cross the border each day "will share the same time, no matter what month of the year we are."

bajadock - 2-20-2010 at 09:08 AM

Any confirmation on what part of Baja California is included as a "border area" in this time change context?

The USA D.S.T. extension comes courtesy of the 2005 Energy Policy Act.
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/478
""In more than 1700 pages of disjointed and profligate spending, Congress has found a politically beneficial way to funnel $14.5 billion to farmers, energy companies, and an assortment of pop-culture ideas."

David K - 2-20-2010 at 09:19 AM

The entire state of Baja California... ('norte' to some)