Hi, I'm sending this on behalf of Jesper Norgaard Welen <timezone50@hotmail.com> =============================================================================== I hadn't seen any news about the pending decision of Congress in Mexico whether to apply DST in Mexico during 2002. As you may remember from earlier e-mails from me, both president Vicente Fox and rebellion mayor of capital Mexico City Andrés Manuel López Obrador had both lost their rights to impose DST rules upon Mexico locally or globally in court decisions, the court deciding that only Congress of Mexico could take such decisions. However, consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico, e.g. of 7 months instead of the 5 months as in 2001. Consulting the pages of the government site http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied, matching the way things are on the US side of the border in Arizona. Everything else is status quo compared to 2001 except that DST starts First Sunday of April at 2:00 and ends First Sunday of October at 2:00 (local times). The decree is actually issued by the president Vicente Fox, but stating that "the honorable Congress of the (ed:mexican republic) Union has bestown upon me to publicise the following decree" e.g. the decision was taken by the Congress, not by the president. Concerning the last notification from Rives McDow that Paraguay is changing their DST rules, I presume that this means that Asunción is still on DST until April 7 at 0:00 (local time)? E.g. the decree no. 16350 took effect immediately instead of just modifying the new DST period in Paraguay from September 2002 to April 2003? I found another reference to the decision of the mexican congress on http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/151390/ which was obviously made before the presidential decree was issued. That article also surprisingly suggests a change for the state of Durango from GMT-6 to GMT-7 (except when applying DST) just as states California South, Chihuahua, Nayarit and Sinaloa, but the presidential decree on http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html doesn't confirm that, so I presume for now it was a journalist's mistake. http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/084527/ also mentions the specific votes in the Congress of Mexico, with 295 in favor and 177 votes against the DST decision. 11 blank votes. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm http://tz.freewebsites.com/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx