Daylight saving time in Mexico
Most of Mexico no longer observes daylight saving time (DST; Spanish: horario de verano) as it was abolished on Sunday, 30 October 2022.[1] The exceptions are the entire state of Baja California, as well as the border municipalities in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas which still observe daylight savings time matching the schedule of the United States beginning on the second Sunday of March and ending on the first Sunday of November.[1]
From 1996 to 2022, DST was observed even in its tropical regions, because of its increasing economic ties to the United States. It observed the schedule used by the United States prior to 2007, with DST beginning on the first Sunday of April and ending on the last Sunday of October.[2] Although the United States changed the schedule for DST beginning in 2007, only certain municipalities located less than 20 km from the border adopted this change.
Overview
The state of Baja California adopted daylight saving time in 1942, due to the state's close ties to the U.S. state of California. This made Baja California the first Mexican state to observe daylight saving time.[3]
The
In December 2009,
- Matamoros, Tamaulipas
- Reynosa, Tamaulipas
- Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
- Anáhuac, Nuevo León
- Acuña, Coahuila
- Piedras Negras, Coahuila
- Ojinaga, Chihuahua
- Juárez, Chihuahua
- All of Baja California
Apart from the border municipalities (above), daylight saving time for Mexico began the first Sunday of April, and ended last Sunday of October.
A bill was proposed by Rep. Francisco Saracho (PRI) in September 2015 to reduce confusion by modifying the aforementioned DST start and end dates, observed by the rest of the country, to match those observed by the border municipalities (above). The bill was discarded by congress on 29 June 2016.
In July 2022, President
Baja California
The state of Baja California (not Baja California Sur) has observed daylight saving time from several decades ago and until 1996 was the only Mexican state to observe it.[2]
As of 2022, Baja California is the only state that continues to observe DST statewide instead of along a limited border region.
Sonora
The state of Sonora has not observed DST since 1998 because of the non-observance of DST by most of its neighbor Arizona and its important economic ties with that US state.[2]
Island territories
The
Quintana Roo
The state of
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Coordinación de Comunicación Social - Pleno del Senado aprueba dictamen para expedir Ley de los Husos Horarios en México".
- ^ a b c "Hora Oficial en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos". Centro Naciona de Metrología. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ^ "El Horario de Verano rige en Baja California desde 1942". El Financiero (in Spanish). Notimex. 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "México adelanta los relojes una hora este domingo por el horario de verano". El País (in Spanish). 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "Cambio de horario México 2019: qué estados cambian y cuáles no". Milenio (in Spanish). 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "Daylight Saving Time in Mexico". Time Temperature. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ^ "AMLO sends Congress bill to eliminate daylight saving time". 6 July 2022.
- ^ "New Quintana Roo Time Zone Change Set for February 1". Retrieved 2015-01-22.
External links
- Official web of the Electric Savings Fiduciary (Fideicomiso del Ahorro de Energia) of the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (in Spanish)