Steve Jones wrote:
I wonder if the recent thaw in US/Cuban relations will have any tangential change in economic relationship between the Caymans and Cuba. If so it might increase pressure to adopt DST.
The recently-shot-down proposal in the Cayman Islands would have used New York style transitions (change at 02:00), not Havana style (change at 00:00). A primary argument for the proposal was to synchronize better with US financial institutions. Wayne Panton, Minister of Financial Services, Commerce and Environment, said: “The global economic environment is challenging and we need to be doing everything we can to align ourselves with our major markets. Everyone wants growth and opportunities for their children but to achieve that we have to be able to adapt. Everything cannot remain as it has been since 1969.” I wonder why Panton said “1969”? According to our admittedly unreliable sources, the Cayman Islands have not changed their Universal Time offset for over a century. Did the “1969” come because an aide whipped up an application that consulted the tz database but stopped at the 1970 POSIX cutoff? Curious. My source: Minister disappointed over daylight savings U-turn. Cayman News 2016-01-25. https://cnsbusiness.com/2016/01/25/minister-disappointed-over-daylight-savin...