Eastern Time Change Approved for Quintana Roo

Expediente Quintana Roo: Quintana Roo tendrá nuevo horario: 1 hora atrás en Verano y 2 en Invierno, aprueba el Senado

Did it 10-15 years ago and it didn't work so let's try it again.


Aprueban cambio de horario para QRoo | El Periodico de Q. Roo
"El pleno del Senado avaló ayer por unanimidad y sin cambios, el dictamen que reforma Ley del Sistema de Horario, por medio de lo cual -y de ser ratificado por la Cámara de Diputados- se crearía una "zona sureste" que incluirá a Quintana Roo y que lo homologaría con el horario de la costa este de Estados Unidos, es decir, mantendrá una hora de diferencia con el de la zona centro del país...."

Basically we go to East Coast time. Again.

 

Jim, do you remember what kind of problems they ran into, then?

 

OH no this is going to suck big time, i'll be expected to work till 8/9pm now!! Ahhhhhhh

 

I'm excited about this. I'm stuck in the office til 6 pm, so extra daylight hours are always nice! (there are always a few months in the winter when I only see daylight on weekends.)

Will be interesting to see how it plays out, but in theory, I approve.

 

The problems last time and the reason it was repealed had more to do with parents taking kids to school in the dark and people going too work in the dark if I remember right and the fact that, no matter what the hoteliers say, it doesn't do anything to help tourism. It may have lasted 2 years last time.

BTW I think I heard someone today say it was back in 1996 the last time we changed. And we changed about 3 times in 4 years! CST, EST, Daylight Savings time and back to Central time with DST. And no matter what happens, Felipe Carrillo Puerto will NEVER change but continue with their "hora rebelde".

 

Didn't see when it's supposed to take effect? What date are they going to change?

Jamie

 

There has been no announcement of when this will take effect. Word on the street is in the fall when we fall back.

When that happens it seems like it will be dark till about noon. So, if I get this right, 7 am will then be equivalent to 5 am so it will really be near dark till almost 9 am.

???

 

I think there is a bit of confusion due to the wording.

I'm pretty sure we are just going to EST. So we'll have exactly the same time as Florida etc. No big deal really. So now it will be 11:30 instead of 10:30.

When the clocks go back in fall we'll stay the same to get in line with EST and Mexico City will go back an hour.

They have it like that in Baja and it works - there it is 9:30 now

So with the new scheme it will be 9:30 in baja, 10:30 in Mexico DF and 11:30 in Cancun - so we get more daylight at the end of the day to enjoy after work!