Most of Mexico to Spring Forward with Daylight Saving Time on Sunday Murry Page - The Mazatlan Messenger
go to original April 3, 2015

A brief history and explanation of the annual madness that is daylight saving time. (CGPGrey)

Daylight saving time (DST) will begin in Mexico on April 5, the first Sunday in April, except for the municipalities located less than 20 kilometers from the USA border. Those municipalities changed to DST on March 8, the second Sunday in March, along with the United States and Canada.

Although the United States adopted DST in 1986, México did not adopt it until 1996. Prior to 1996 the state of Baja California was the only state to observe DST. The state of Sonora has never adopted DST because of the non-observance of DST by Arizona and its important economic ties with that US state.

This will be the first year in which the state of Quintana Roo will not observe DST. That state changed its time zone this year from Central Standard Time to Eastern Standard Time.

Learn more about DST at The Mazatlan Messenger

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