alafrontera
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Daylight Savings Time
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 
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lizard lips
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I believe Mexico will keep the same date of change as in US instead of two weeks later.
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| 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.  I couldn't care less what time other people
think it is. I know. I have a watch.
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| 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
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Russ
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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.
[Edited on 2-19-2010 by Russ]
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The bill passed and we in Baja will change our clocks as the U.S. does
finally.
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| 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. 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.
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| 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.
[Edited on 2-19-2010 by Russ] |
More likely in April.
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irenemm
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daylight saving is March 14th not April
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noproblemo2
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| Quote: | Originally posted by irenemm
The bill passed and we in Baja will change our clocks as the U.S. does
finally. |
Thank You Irene
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"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
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alafrontera
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"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"
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I like the way Arizona handles it-we don't mess with time changes!! Less cufizin'
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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."
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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
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The entire state of Baja California... ('norte' to some)
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