Mexico may eliminate DST next year- except parts of some northern states
According to some news published on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Mexico may eliminate DST next year- except parts of some northern states. "AMLO sends bill to eliminate daylight saving; Mexico to return to 'God's time'" https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-sends-bill-to-eliminate-daylight-savin... https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-president-presents-bill-elimin... "Mexico president presents bill to eliminate daylight saving time" "It's likely that the clocks won't change next year in most states" "The bill only requires a simple majority to pass the federal legislature, meaning that it is likely to become law. With the support of its allies, the ruling Morena party commands a majority in both the lower and upper houses. Energy Minister Rocío Nahle and Health Minister Jorge Alcocer appeared at the president's morning press conference on Tuesday to present arguments in favor of getting rid of the twice-a-year time change...... ..................... However, God's clock and health worries may not apply in parts of some northern states where clock changes have been synchronized with states in the southern U.S. to facilitate cross-border trade and other connections. Energy Minister Nahle said on Tuesday that there would continue to be exceptions in some northern border municipalities." Regards, WorldTimeZone.com team
On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 11:30, World Time Zone via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
According to some news published on Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Mexico may eliminate DST next year- except parts of some northern states.
"AMLO sends bill to eliminate daylight saving; Mexico to return to ‘God’s time’"
Thanks for the heads-up. This document appears to contain the draft law in question: http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/PDF/65/2022/jul/20220706-III.pdf While most of the document discusses motivation for the bill, the proposed law itself appears to start on page 22 of the PDF. The proposal would bring the new law into force from Tuesday 2022-11-01, so most areas of Mexico would "fall back" for the last time on Sunday 2022-10-30 at 02:00, while the northern border regions described in the law's second chapter would continue to observe US-like rules, falling back a week later on Sunday 2022-11-06 and retaining the existing seasonal time change. My knowledge of Spanish isn't good enough to help me find where one might track the status of this proposal as it moves through the federal legislature, so do keep us posted on developments as you hear them. -- Tim Parenti
On 7/7/22 10:30, World Time Zone via tz wrote:
"AMLO sends bill to eliminate daylight saving; Mexico to return to 'God's time'" https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-sends-bill-to-eliminate-daylight-savin...
AMLO has broadened his ambitions, and now talking about coalescing Mexico's four time zones into one. There is no definite proposal yet, and it's not clear what he would do to clocks near the US border. See: Arista L. AMLO: se eliminará horario de verano y después se analizará si se unifica hora [in Spanish]. Expansión. 2022-08-29. https://politica.expansion.mx/presidencia/2022/08/29/amlo-se-eliminara-el-ho... Back in July I thought that whether Mexico would eliminate DST (except near the border) would likely be decided by next month. Now I'm not so sure.
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